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Definition of Jumble

Jumble

  1. To mix in a confused mass; to put or throw together without order; -- often followed by together or up.
  2. To meet or unite in a confused way; to mix confusedly.
  3. A confused mixture; a mass or collection without order; as, a jumble of words.
  4. A small, thin, sugared cake, usually ring-shaped.

Jumble Quotations

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
Emile M. Cioran

I believe that life is chaotic, a jumble of accidents, ambitions, misconceptions, bold intentions, lazy happenstances, and unintended consequences, yet I also believe that there are connections that illuminate our world, revealing its endless mystery and wonder.
David Moranis

It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.
V. S. Naipaul

The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.
Malcolm De Chazal

Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a perfect and very slightly allegorical expression of the actual present views we hold today.
Frederick Soddy
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Jumble Translations

jumble in German is Durcheinander
jumble in Norwegian is virvar

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