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Noun: jumble  júm-bul
  1. A confused multitude of things
    - clutter, muddle, fuddle, mare's nest, welter, smother, scramble
     
  2. Small flat ring-shaped cake or cookie
    - jumbal
     
  3. A theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas
    - patchwork, hodgepodge [N. Amer, informal], hotchpotch
     
  4. [Brit] Items for a jumble sale
Verb: jumble  júm-bul
  1. Be all mixed up or jumbled together
    "His words jumbled";
    - mingle
     
  2. Assemble without order or sense
    "She jumbles the words when she is supposed to write a sentence";
    - confuse, mix up
     
  3. Bring into random order
    - scramble, throw together

Derived forms: jumbled, jumbles, jumbling

Type of: assemble, be, cake, disarray, disorder, disorderliness, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together, theory

Encyclopedia: Jumble