tumble
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English tumblen (“to fall over and over again, tumble”), frequentative of Middle English tumben (“to fall, leap, dance”), from Old English tumbian, from Proto-Germanic *tūmōną (“to turn, rotate”). Cognate with Middle Dutch tumelen (whence Dutch tuimelen), Middle Low German tumelen, tummelen, German taumeln and Danish tumle.
Inflected forms:
form: tumbles
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tumbles
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: tumbling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: tumbled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: tumbled
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A fall, especially end over end.
pos: noun
examples: I took a tumble down the stairs and broke my tooth.
gloss: A disorderly heap.
pos: noun
examples: When at last we stopped in a tumble of bodies on the grass, laughing, and in Dad's case, out of breath, we were like little kids (I mean 5 or 6! After all I am 12!) at the end of a playground session.
gloss: An act of sexual intercourse.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: Wouldn't it be jolly now, / To take our Aertex panters off / And have a jolly tumble in / The jolly, jolly sun?
When you've just had a tumble between the sheets and are feeling rumpled and lazy, she may want to get up so she can make the bed.
gloss: To fall end over end; to roll over and over.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He who tumbles from a tower surely has a greater blow than he who slides from a molehill.
“Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.[…]”
The two animals tumbled over each other in their eagerness to get inside, and heard the door shut behind them with great joy and relief.
Before so many of Europe's crowns came tumbling off the heads of their royal owners, Continental Europe could show a rich variety in the matter of royal trains.
gloss: To throw headlong.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: His hand went after his revolver almost that instant mine did. I was a second too quick for him, for my shot tumbled him from his mule just as his ball whistled harmlessly past by my head.
[Spillikins] was played with ivory or bone pieces about five inches long with assorted ends. These were tumbled out of a box into a pile on the table and each player, using a specially designed tool, would try in turn to remove a spillikin without upsetting the others in the pile.
[A] surge of muddy water tore him free from his sandy nook and tumbled him down the gully.
gloss: To perform gymnastics such as somersaults, rolls, and handsprings.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To drop rapidly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Share prices tumbled after the revelation about the company's impending failure.
gloss: To smooth and polish (e.g. gemstones or pebbles) by means of a rotating tumbler.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To have sexual intercourse.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
gloss: To move or rush in a headlong or uncontrolled way.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Whether he ever thought of it at all, might be a question ; but, if he ever did chance to cast his mind that way after a comfortable dinner, no doubt, like a good sailor, he took it to be a sort of call of the watch to tumble aloft, and bestir themselves there, about something which he would find out when he obeyed the order, and not sooner.
gloss: To muss, to make disorderly; to tousle or rumple.
pos: verb
examples: to tumble a bed
gloss: To obscure the audit trail of funds by means of a tumbler.
pos: verb
examples: Now it’s easy to purchase bitcoins on any number of mainstream markets and “tumble” them so that their point of purchase is obscured.
gloss: To comprehend; often in tumble to.
pos: verb
tags: UK
obsolete
slang
examples: Speaking of this language, a costermonger said to me: "The Irish can't tumble to it anyhow; the Jews can tumble better, but we're their masters. Some of the young salesmen at Billingsgate understand us, — but only at Billingsgate; […]
Derived words: give a tumble
rough and tumble
rumble-tumble
take a tumble
tumble-car
tumble drier
tumble dryer
tumble home
tumble motor
tumble mustard
tumbler
tumble ringwing
tumble thistle
tumble-turd
tumble turn
atumble
betumble
detumble
overtumble
retumble
tu
tumblebug
tumble down
tumbledung
tumblehome
tumble in
tumblelog
tumble on
tumbleset
tumblesome
tumblestone
tumble to
tumble together
tumble up
tumbling E chart
tumblingly
tumbling mat
tumbling mill
untumbled
Translations:
lang: Greek
word: ανθίζομαι
roman: anthízomai