scrumblev.1
/ˈskrʌmb(ə)l/ rare.
transitive. To scrape or scratch out of or from (something). The two examples perhaps represent independent nonce-formations.
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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] > by scratching
to scratch out?1527
scrat1886
scrumble1906
1906 W. B. Yeats King's Threshold in Poems, 1899–1905 223 I'll scrumble the ermine out of his skin!
1975 P. Lively Going Back iv. 43 We scrumble the soft innards from the loaf and hold it high above us and now it snows bread upon the snow.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
scrumblev.2
/ˈskrʌmb(ə)l/ transitive. To produce a smeary or grainy effect on (paint).
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > art of colouring > colour [verb (transitive)] > lay on a colour > with smeary or grainy effect
scrumble1921
1921 Spectator 9 Apr. 454/2 The paint has been scrumbled, i.e. if you look into it, it does not present a flat surface, it shows variations something like the grain of wood.
Derivatives
ˈscrumbled adj.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > art of colouring > [adjective] > having smeary or grainy effect
scrumbled1937
1937 Sunday Times 17 Jan. 30/3 Dining room designed in the Tudor style with scrumbled walls and beamed ceilings.
1959 Spectator 8 May 652/2 In his later large decorations..the light colours, the scrumbled paint and the botanist's eye meet in something very far from mythology on one hand, and neurosis on the other.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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