But Tuesday word is ............... (confusing)

[t-bob]

SKIMBLE-SCAMBLE

adjective
1. rambling; confused; nonsensical: a skimble-scamble explanation.

Quotes
He complained bitterly of his reporters, saying that the skimblescamble stuff which they published would "make posterity think ill of his understanding, and that of his brethren on the bench."
-- John Campbell, The Lives of the Chief Justices of England,  Vol. III, 1873

And such a deal of skimble-skamble stuff, / As puts me from my faith.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, 1623


Origin
The rare adjective skimble-scamble shows the same, common vowel alteration in a reduplicated word as in mish-mash or pitter-patter. The reduplicated word is the verb scamble, of unknown etymology, and now obsolete or dialectal, meaning “to struggle or scramble with others for food or money tossed to a crowd,” now replaced by scramble. The lexicographer Samuel Johnson was not keen on skimble-scamble, calling it a “cant word,” one of his favorite terms of abuse. Skimble-scamble entered English at the end of the 16th century

[Marshall]

[t-bob]

Mar 26, 2019 11:46:03 GMT -5 Marshall said:

I enjoy scrabble..... it is therapeutic ✍🏻

[drlj]

But does anyone enjoy scrapple?

[t-bob]

Mar 26, 2019 17:25:38 GMT -5 drlj said:

But does anyone enjoy scrapple?

Sounds like a Burrito?
Adios pancho!

[billhammond]

Mar 26, 2019 17:25:38 GMT -5 drlj said:

But does anyone enjoy scrapple?

John Gorka mentions a childhood memory, scrapple on toast, in his song "People My Age."

[drlj]

Mar 26, 2019 18:09:31 GMT -5 billhammond said:

Mar 26, 2019 17:25:38 GMT -5 drlj said:

But does anyone enjoy scrapple?

John Gorka mentions a childhood memory, scrapple on toast, in his song "People My Age."

Ugh!!

[t-bob]

Mar 26, 2019 18:19:07 GMT -5 drlj said:

Mar 26, 2019 18:09:31 GMT -5 billhammond said:

John Gorka mentions a childhood memory, scrapple on toast, in his song "People My Age."

Ugh!!

I remember the high school lunch “ shingle mystery meat on toast” blech!