jumbly, a.
(ˈdʒʌmblɪ)
Also Sc. jumly.
[f. jumble n.1 + -y.]
1. Confused, chaotic, in a jumble.
| 1865 Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xv. x. (1872) VI. 67 Gessler, noticing the jumbly condition of those Austrian battalions..dashes through. 1896 B. Spencer in Rep. Horn Exped. i. 103 A series of low jumbly hills. |
2. Turbid, ‘drumly’. Sc.
| ? 18.. The Water o Gamery ix. in Child Ballads vii. ccxv F. (1890) 182/2 [A stream] That was baith black and jumly. 1896 J. Lumsden Poems 13 Jumly broo Of melted ice. |