scambleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈskæmbəl/

動詞

scamble (三人称単数 現在形 scambles, 現在分詞 scambling, 過去形および過去分詞形 scambled)

1. (intransitive) To move awkwardly; to be shuffling, irregular, or unsteady; to sprawl; to shamble.
   • 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 61:

     "Or if you will say, that there may some scambling shift be made without them […] "

2. (intransitive) To move about pushing and jostling; to be rude and turbulent; to scramble; struggle for place or possession.
   • 1596, Shakespeare, King John, act IV scene III

     How easy dost thou take all England up!

     From forth this morsel of dead royalty,

     The life, the right and truth of all this realm

     Is fled to heaven; and England now is left

     To tug and scamble and to part by the teeth

     The unowed interest of proud-swelling state.

3. (transitive) To mangle.
   • 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], published 1708, OCLC 13320837:

     finding my Wood cut in Patches , and other parts of it scambled and cut before it was at its Growth