[f. JUMBLE v.]
1. A confused or disorderly mixture or assemblage, a medley; also, disorder, muddle.
1661. Glanvill, Van. Dogm., xviii. 173. Had the world been coagmented from that supposed fortuitous Jumble.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., I. iv. § 36. 551. There is a confused Jumble of Created, and Vncreated Beings together.
1711. Lady M. W. Montagu, Lett., to Mrs. Hewet (1887), I. 33. I have the oddest jumble of disagreeable things in my head that ever plagued poor mortals.
1751. Cambridge, Scribleriad, II. 184, note. The Macaronian is … a jumble of words of different languages, with words of the vulgar tongue latinized, and latin words modernized.
1882. Floyer, Unexpl. Balūchistan, 60. The scenery … is … a reckless jumble of hills and rocks of every imaginable shape, size, and colour.
2. A shock, shaking or jolting; colloq., a ride in a carriage (with reference to the shaking experienced).
1674. N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 151. The Shows or Phænomena of the world … even the worst of its shocks and jumbles.
1800. Mrs. Hervey, Mourtray Fam., II. 139. Mamma has lent me her carriage to go a shopping, so I wish you would take a jumble with me.
1823. Mad. D’Arblay, Lett., 29 Feb. Going out … either in brisk walks … or in brisk jumbles in the carriage.
1851. J. Colquhoun, Moor & Loch (1880), I. 262. The jumble of the sea made shooting uncertain.
1855. Chamier, My Travels, I. x. 56. The carriage ought to be strong to bear the jolts and jumbles to which it is subjected.
3. Comb., as jumble-letters, letters of a word thrown into disorder in order to exercise ingenuity in their proper re-arrangement; jumble-sale, a sale of miscellaneous cheap or second-hand articles at a charitable bazaar or the like; jumble-shop, a shop where very miscellaneous goods are sold.
1893. ‘Q.’ [Quiller-Couch], Delect. Duchy, 287. Trudgeon that used to keep the jumble-shop across the water.
1898. Westm. Gaz., 12 Nov., 2/3. Some cheap articles for a jumble sale.
1899. Daily News, 19 July, 7/5. Competitions for money prizes for properly placing jumble letters.
