Crossword clues for jumble
jumble
- Popular newspaper puzzle subtitled "That Scrambled Word Game"
- A confused multitude of things
- Small flat ring-shaped cake or cookie
- A theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas
- Mix-up when modest Jack replaces Henry
- Mix up; items for sale
- Mix confusedly
- No good turning to doctor to transform rainforest disorder
- Type of crossword unfinished by the French in confusion
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jumble \Jum"ble\, v. i.
To meet or unite in a confused way; to mix confusedly.
--Swift.
Jumble \Jum"ble\, n.
A confused mixture; a mass or collection without order; as, a jumble of words.
A small, thin, sugared cake, usually ring-shaped. [Also spelled jumbal.]
Jumble \Jum"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jumbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Jumbling.] [Prob. fr. jump, i. e., to make to jump, or shake.] To mix in a confused mass; to put or throw together without order; -- often followed by together or up.
Why dost thou blend and jumble such inconsistencies
together?
--Burton.
Every clime and age
Jumbled together.
--Tennyson.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, originally "to move confusedly," perhaps coined on model of stumble, tumble, etc. In 17c., it was yet another euphemism for "have sex with" (a sense first attested 1580s). Meaning "mix or confuse" is from 1540s. Related: Jumbled; jumbling.
"a confused mixture," 1660s, from jumble (v.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A mixture of unrelated things. 2 (context British English) Items for a rummage sale. 3 (context archaic English) A small, thin, sugared cake, usually ring-shaped. vb. 1 (context transitive English) to mix or confuse 2 (context intransitive English) to meet or unite in a confused way
WordNet
n. a confused multitude of things [syn: clutter, muddle, mare's nest, welter, smother]
small flat ring-shaped cake or cookie [syn: jumbal]
a theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas [syn: patchwork, hodgepodge]
v. be all mixed up or jumbled together; "His words jumbled" [syn: mingle]
assemble without order or sense; "She jumbles the words when she is supposed to write a sentence" [syn: confuse, mix up]
bring into random order [syn: scramble, throw together]
Wikipedia
Jumble was a daytime game show series that was produced by Anglia Television and ran for 2 series on the ITV network from 1991 until 1993, the programme was hosted by Jeff Stevenson.
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Jumble was an American game show that was broadcast on The Family Channel, running from June 13 September 2 and from November 21 to December 30, 1994. It was based on the newspaper game of the same name. Wink Martindale hosted, while Randy West was the announcer.
Jumble may be used as:
- Jumble, the word game.
- Jumble algorithm, solving and creating clues seen in the word game.
- Jumble (cookie), the widespread travel cookie also known as knots.
- Jumble sale, a variation on the term "rummage sale".
- Jumble (game show), a game show based on the word game.
- Jumble (TV series), another television series with the name.
Jumble is a word puzzle with a clue, a drawing illustrating the clue, and a set of words, each of which is “jumbled” by scrambling its letters. A solver reconstructs the words, and then arranges letters at marked positions in the words to spell the answer phrase to the clue. The clue and illustration always provide hints about the answer phrase. The answer phrase frequently uses a homophone or pun.
Jumble was created in 1954 by Martin Naydel, who is better known for his work on comic books. It originally appeared under the title "Scramble". Henri Arnold and Bob Lee took over the feature in 1962 and continued for at least 30 years. As of 2013, Jumble is created by David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek. Jumble is one of the most valuable properties of its distributor, US company Tribune Content Agency, which owns the JUMBLE trademarks and copyrights. Daily and Sunday Jumble puzzles appear in over 600 newspapers in the United States and internationally.
The current syndicated version found in most daily newspapers (under the official title Jumble, That Scrambled Word Game) has four base anagrams, two of five letters and two of six, followed by a clue and a series of blank spaces in which the answer to the clue fits. The answer to the clue is generally a pun of some sort. A weekly "kids version" of the puzzle features a 3-letter word plus three 4-letter words. In order to find the letters that are in the answer to the given clue, the player must unscramble all four of the scrambled words; the letters that are in the clue will be circled. The contestant then unscrambles the circled letters to form the answer to the clue. An alternate workaround is to solve some of the scrambled words, figure out the answer to the clue without all the letters, then use the "extra" letters as aids to solve the remaining scrambled words.
There are many variations of puzzles from the Jumble brand including Jumble, Jumble for Kids, Jumble Crosswords, TV Jumble, Jumble BrainBusters, Jumble BrainBusters Junior, Hollywood Jumble, Jumble Jong, Jumble Word Vault, Jumpin' Jumble, Jumble Solitaire, and Jumble Word Web.
Jumbles (other spellings Jambles, Jumbals, Jumbolls, Jumbolds, Jumballs) are cookie-like pastries, common in England and abroad since the Middle Ages, which tend to have a relatively simple recipe of nuts, flour, eggs, and sugar, with vanilla, anise, or caraway seed used for flavoring. They were formerly often made in the form of rings or rolls.
Jumbles were known by many variations on the basic name, including jambal, jemelloe, and gemmel. They were widespread, specifically because they travelled well, thanks to their very dense, hard nature. They could be stored for up to a year without becoming too stale. Because of their density, they were sometimes twisted into knots before baking, in order to make them easier to eat, generating knots as another common name.
Jumbals were traditionally shaped in intricate loop or knot patterns, usually of rolled out dough. Early flavouring agents were aniseed, coriander, caraway seeds and rosewater. Later, jumbles referred, especially in the United States, to a thin crisp cake or cookie using e.g. lemon-peel as a flavouring agent.
In Australia, Arnotts manufactures a related product called Honey Jumbles.
Usage examples of "jumble".
The man was too awkward aiming, but he went instantly graceful when Rambo shot him, smoothly clutching his right shoulder, spinning easily, toppling perfectly over the bicycle next to the tool shed, and then he was awkward again as the bicycle gave way under him and the two jumbled to the ground in a tinny jangle of chain and spokes.
Stonehampton, among the low wharves and wooden warehouses, which stood along the flat banks, jumbled up with streets and ferries, queer one-storied shops and verandahed dwelling-houses, closed in with yellow alamandas, passion fruit, and orange begonias.
He had a tendency to jumble one topic in with another as things occurred to him, and a good deal of it was profane, but Alec managed to sift out enough to set his mind at rest by the time they drew alongside the sleek hull of the Grampus.
The violin was in the grape arbour, singing a perfect jumble of everything, poured out in an exultant tumult.
Jigsaws, cards, roulette counters, poker chips, spillikins, marbles, yarrow stalks, dice, jacks, Trivial Pursuit wedges, bridge score-sheets, discarded Pictionary doodles, Scrabble tiles, bits of unidentifiable plastic and shards of bakelite, wood and metal formed a jumbled compost capable of engaging a dedicated housekeeper for several months of full-time sifting, cataloguing and sorting into the correct boxes.
An airline pilot, his plane loaded with a jumbled heap of gasping and spasmed humanity, makes pass after pass at the very tip of the Empire State Bulding until at last the television tower rakes off one wing and the plane goes twisting down to the chasm of the street.
Elora breathed, shutting her eyes tight, clutching Caille to her side with one hand, the other reaching out toward the jumble of boards that had been their home.
His memories of Elroy Doil and all that had occurred were like a file folder of jumbled notes and pages.
The details were jumbled up, but Gaye had apparently been roaming on her own for ten years or more.
On the way in to Gilver, it had shown a hideously jumbled swarm of ships and missiles, their tracks and signals jammed to provide them the greatest possible protection.
Lyman said gently, watching the screen on which four animated jaggy boxes were jumbling and dancing as they reported on the throughput between the routers and the laptop.
They came to a patch of wall where the bands of rock swirled and jumbled like burl in a piece of walnut.
Max whirled, stumbling back, looking up into golden, snake-pupiled eyes, into teeth and twitching mouth parts, into claws and scales and an indescribable horror of a body that, like the jumbled parts of a nightmare, refused to come together into anything orderly or recognizable or sane.
Behan sat there in his chair, trying to sort out his jumbled impressions.
There were thoughts to be patterned and rich beds of memories, but most were jumbled, confused, almost incoherent.