famble

/ˈfæmbəl/
noun 1verb 1

Definitions

noun

1

A hand.

We clap our fambles.

A Bow Street Runner says "I knew a cove as talked the way you do – leastways, in the way of business I knew him! In fact, you remind me of him very strong […] He was on the dub-lay, and very clever with his fambles. He ended up in the Whit, o’ course."

verb

1

To stammer.

“Stow that, Jem, if you please, ” said Gemman Joe, as he had been called by his comrade.— "Toggery is too apt to tell tales. I won't have a rag of it fambled. It's a prime job for us already, for we are to touch. five-and-twenty guineas a-piece, you know, for doing his business, and we don't get such a grab as that every day."

Destiny, it might be said, simply opened its mouth to speak and, for reasons no one really knew, fambled to a halt.

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