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- noun Plural form of
famble .
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Examples
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I was good for mair than that in the great fight between our folk and Patrico Salmons; if I had not helped you with these very fambles (holding up her hands), Jean Baillie would have frammagemd you9ye feckless do-little!
Chapter XXVIII 1917
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Salmon's; if I had not helped you with these very fambles (holding up her hands), Jean Baillie would have frummagem'd you, ye feckless do-little! '
Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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Patrico Salmon's; if I had not helped you with these very fambles
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801
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Patrico Salmon's; if I had not helped you with these very fambles
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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‘I was good for mair than that in the great fight between our folk and Patrico Salmon’s; if I had not helped you with these very fambles (holding up her hands), Jean Baillie would have frummagem’d you, ye feckless do-little!’
Guy Mannering 1815
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