jerrycummumble

• jerrymumble

• jerry from jerry or Jerry. Similar to jerry-built or "jerry-sneak". Possibly taken from Jerry, a nickname for Germans.
• jerrycummumble and its alternative jerrymumble possibly made to rhyme with "fumble, rumble, or tumble.
• Potentially related to "jerry-cum-fumble".^[1]
• Its earliest documented usage is 1709, but Green's Dictionary exemplifies frequent usage of the term between 1785 and 1834.^[1]

jerrycummumble (third-person singular simple present jerrycummumbles, present participle jerrycummumbling, simple past and past participle jerrycummumbled)

1. (UK, slang) To shake, towzle, or tumble about; ^[1] to jumble, shake, toss, or get into a muddle.

   Synonym: jerrymumble

   • 1902, Rives, Hallie Erminie, Hearts courageous:

     When Colonel Ochiltree saw that, Damn my bones V says he, 'get the chariot!' and he put fox and hounds and overseer all in it, Jerrycummumble, and brought 'em home.

   • 1929, Lattimore, Owen, “Chapter 5, Lands of Unrest”, in The desert road to turkestan‎^[1]:

     […] we were in a big stretch of purely Mongol land, and most of the broken soldiery were keeping farther to the south, making for the Kan-su border. Our neighbors were a hu-la-mao’rh — an expression meaning, more or less, jerrycummumble. The hu-la-mao'rh аге a recognized class among the Kuei-hua caravans.

   • 1966, Tripp, Ben, The accidental highwayman : being the tale of Kit Bristol, his horse Midnight, a mysterious princess, and sundry magical persons besides‎^[2]:

     You’re free and equal Faeries. Forget your book of laws and knock the old wooly-pate down with a magical jerrycummumble.

   • 1985, Freemen, Joy, The last frost fair‎^[3]:

     […] not to jerrycummumble him about further.

   • 2009, James G. Anderson & Mark Sebanc, The Stoneholding‎^[4]:

     Come, Kalaquinn, out with it. I’m certain it would take more than a pull of Persy’s mulled wine to jerrycummymble the tongue of one of Frysan Wright’s sons. If there’s danger, old Persy should know about it.