fumblin

You actually had to try to get the shot right the first time, before chimping 15 exposures, wheelin' your apertures around and fumblin' and stumblin' with the shutter speeds...

Back in The Day... 2009

A buffoon fumblin 'without a clue, who likes to shift the blame and often feels betrayed.

Gonna Be Some Changes Made Bruce Hornsby 2004

Look out your window fair and you'll see me squattin 'there Just a-fumblin' and a-mumblin 'to myself.

ALL OVER YOU Dylan, Bob, 1941- 1968

'Ca'se li'l black Mose he come a-fumblin' an 'a-rattlin' at de do 'jes whin dat ghost-tale mos' skeery, an 'yever'body gwine imaginate dat de ghost a-fumblin' an 'a-rattlin' at de do '.

The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories Franklin K. [Editor] Mathiews

We'll hev no sich men fumblin wi ther werd ev God in our pulpit.

Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly A Story of the Wilmington Massacre. Jack Thorne

She came down stairs and she fastened up this door, and then I seed her fumblin 'in her pocket, and, pullin' out a piece of chalk, she began to write.

The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play Edward A. Rand

Last night on my way home from work I heerd the young feller was back -- he got in just as we was knockin 'off for the day; an' this mornin 'just as you cut loose, Zeb, I'll be danged if he didn't show up in front o' the office door, fumblin 'for the keyhole.

The Valley of the Giants 1918

How fumblin 'cuifs their dearies slight -- [dolts]

Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

He's fumblin 'nervous with a gold cigarette case and his hand trembles so he can hardly hold a match.

Torchy As A Pa Sewell Ford 1907

Also he was fumblin 'with the book, hesitatin' what to give 'em next, when I pushes in and begins pumpin 'his hand.

The House of Torchy Sewell Ford 1907