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Scamble v. i. (past & past part. scambled; pres. part. scambling)

To move awkwardly; to be shuffling, irregular, or unsteady; to sprawl; to shamble. "Some scambling shifts." "A fine old hall, but a scambling house."

To move about pushing and jostling; to be rude and turbulent; to scramble. "The scambling and unquiet time did push it out of... question."

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Etymology of 'Scamble'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... vowel a, is indicated in jangle, tangle, spangle, mangle, wrangle, brangle, dangle; as also in mumble, grumble, jumble. But at the same time the close u implies something obscure or obtunded; and a congeries of consonants mbl, denotes a confused kind of rolling or tumbling, as in ramble, scamble, scramble, wamble, amble; but in these there ...

— A Grammar of the English Tongue • Samuel Johnson