▪ I. scrumble, v.1 rare.
(ˈskrʌmb(ə)l)
[Perh. a blend of scrape v. or scratch v. + crumble v.]
trans. To scrape or scratch out of or from (something).
The two examples perhaps represent independent nonce-formations.
| 1906 W. B. Yeats King's Threshold in Poems, 1899–1905 223 I'll scrumble the ermine out of his skin! 1975 P. Lively Going Back iv. 43 We scrumble the soft innards from the loaf and hold it high above us and now it snows bread upon the snow. |
▪ II. scrumble, v.2
(ˈskrʌmb(ə)l)
[App. alteration of scumble v.]
trans. To produce a smeary or grainy effect on (paint). Hence ˈscrumbled ppl. a.
| 1921 Spectator 9 Apr. 454/2 The paint has been scrumbled, i.e. if you look into it, it does not present a flat surface, it shows variations something like the grain of wood. 1937 Sunday Times 17 Jan. 30/3 Dining room designed in the Tudor style with scrumbled walls and beamed ceilings. 1959 Spectator 8 May 652/2 In his later large decorations..the light colours, the scrumbled paint and the botanist's eye meet in something very far from mythology on one hand, and neurosis on the other. |