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单词 stumbling
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stumblingn.

/ˈstʌmblɪŋ/
Etymology: -ing suffix1.
The action of stumble v., in various senses.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [noun] > manner of walking > stumbling
stumblinga1400
snappering1591
tripping1594
stumble1641
cespitation1654
the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [noun] > unskilful action or working
blunderingc1440
blunt-workingc1440
bumbling1533
stumbling1569
bumble1621
bodging1634
budgelling1657
bungling1663
boggling1834
bunglery1837
muffing1841
perpetration1849
foozling1927
muck-up1942
the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > [noun] > finding a stumbling-block
stumbling1611
a1400–50 Wars Alex. 2623 Þare was stomling of stedis sticking of erles.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 598 He tolde him also without anye stayeng or stomblyng,..the names of all the colours that coulde be shewed him.
a1600 King & Barker 106 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) I. 9 With a stombellyng as he rode the thanner downe he [sc. the horse] cast.
1611 Bible (King James) 1 John ii. 10 Hee that loueth his brother, abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. View more context for this quotation
1657 T. Hobbes Στιγμαι 4 I noted it only that you may be more merciful hereafter to the stumblings of a hasty Pen.
1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 36 To entice My stumblings down some monstrous precipice.
1873 G. S. Baden-Powell New Homes for Old Country 184 Stumblings and injuries to legs are of remarkably rare occurrence.
1892–3 J. A. Froude Lect. Council Trent (1896) vi. 134 There was stumbling again at the power of the keys, and at the splendour and assumptions of the hierarchy.

Compounds

stumbling-shoe n. a horseshoe devised to prevent stumbling.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > shoeing of horses > [noun] > horseshoe > types of horseshoe
remove1512
lunette1566
half-moon shoe1607
pancelet1607
plate1607
patten shoe1639
linnet-hole1662
cross-bar shoe1675
interfering shoe1678
pantofle shoe1696
panton shoe1696
cutting-shoe1711
skim1795
skimmer1801
bar-shoe1831
sandal1831
tip1831
racket1846
hipposandal1847
slipper1903
stumbling-shoe1908
mud-shoe1940
1908 Animal Managem. (War Office) 367 Stumbling shoes, 244 [In text: Shoes to obviate stumbling].
stumbling-stock n. Obsolete = stumbling-block n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > [noun] > one who or that which hinders > a hindrance, impediment, or obstacle
hinderc1200
withsetting1340
obstaclec1385
traversea1393
mara1400
bayc1440
stoppagec1450
barrace1480
blocka1500
objecta1500
clog1526
stumbling-stone1526
bar1530
(to cast) a trump in (one's) way1548
stumbling-stock1548
hindrance1576
a log in one's way1579
crossbar1582
log1589
rub1589
threshold1600
scotch1601
dam1602
remora1604
obex1611
obstructiona1616
stumbling-blocka1616
fence1639
affront1642
retardance1645
stick1645
balk1660
obstruent1669
blockade1683
sprun1684
spoke1689
cross cause1696
uncomplaisance1707
barrier1712
obstruct1747
dike1770
abatis1808
underbrush1888
bunker1900
bump1909
sprag1914
hurdle1924
headwind1927
mudhole1933
monkey wrench1937
roadblock1945
1548 R. Crowley Informacion & Peticion sig. Biv Immodeste and wanton gyrles haue hereby ben made sisters of the Banck (the stumbling stock of all frayle youth).
1569 T. Roest tr. J. van der Noot Theatre Worldlings 31 Christ is that stumbling stocke, and the stone of offense, whereat the world stumbled.
c1630 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1714) II. 150 Richard Hooker..wrote a Book intitled The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, a great Stumbling-Stock to many, and not answered by any.
1841 G. Borrow Zincali II. iii. 156 Many of which have long been stumbling-stocks to the philologist.
stumbling-stone n. = stumbling-block n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > [noun] > one who or that which hinders > a hindrance, impediment, or obstacle
hinderc1200
withsetting1340
obstaclec1385
traversea1393
mara1400
bayc1440
stoppagec1450
barrace1480
blocka1500
objecta1500
clog1526
stumbling-stone1526
bar1530
(to cast) a trump in (one's) way1548
stumbling-stock1548
hindrance1576
a log in one's way1579
crossbar1582
log1589
rub1589
threshold1600
scotch1601
dam1602
remora1604
obex1611
obstructiona1616
stumbling-blocka1616
fence1639
affront1642
retardance1645
stick1645
balk1660
obstruent1669
blockade1683
sprun1684
spoke1689
cross cause1696
uncomplaisance1707
barrier1712
obstruct1747
dike1770
abatis1808
underbrush1888
bunker1900
bump1909
sprag1914
hurdle1924
headwind1927
mudhole1933
monkey wrench1937
roadblock1945
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Rom. ix. 33 Beholde I put in syon a stomblynge stone and a rocke which shall make men faule [Gk. λίθον προσκόμματος καὶ πέτραν σκανδάλου].
1567 R. Sempill in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. 34 God he is all that layis ane stumling stane, Quhilk may the cause be of our bretheringis fall.
1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth ii. 294 The regularity of the universe was always a great stumbling-stone to the Epicuræans.
1782 W. Cowper tr. V. Bourne Glow-worm in W. Cowper Poems 336 Nor crush a worm, whose useful light Might serve..To shew a stumbling stone by night.
1865 A. C. Swinburne Chastelard (1894) ii. i. 47 Some scurril children that lurked near Set there by Satan for my stumbling-stone.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

stumblingadj.

/ˈstʌmblɪŋ/
Etymology: -ing suffix2.
That stumbles, in various senses of the verb.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > [adjective] > leading to error
stumblingc1425
seducive1774
seductive1782
the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > [adjective] > having specific manner of walking > stumbling
stumbling1538
tripping1577
snappering1596
stumbly1890
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [adjective]
wanmola1325
rudea1393
lewdc1425
rustyc1425
unpolisheda1450
roidc1485
inelegant1509
gross1513
rough?1520
barbarous1526
ineloquent1532
inconcinnate1534
crabby1550
crabbed1561
uneloquent1565
unelegant1570
unkempt1579
unfiled1590
illiterate1598
unconceived1599
aliterate1624
incompta1628
scabbed1630
uncombed1633
uncompt1633
uncouth1694
coarse1699
slatternly1783
crude1786
warty1822
stumbling1859
the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [adjective] > clumsy or awkward > blundering, stumbling, or floundering > of actions, etc.
baulteringa1704
stumbling1859
c1425 Cast. Persev. 1042 [Avaricia loquitur:] Þerfore, Pryde, good broþyr,..late Iche of vs take at othyr, & set Mankynde on a stomlynge stol.
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Suffossus equus, a stumblynge horse.
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. May 231 Her stombling steppe somewhat her amazed.
1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 383/1 Confragosus locus,..a rough, rugged, rockie or stumbling ground: vphill and downehill.
1727 Country-post in J. Swift et al. Misc. II. 290 There have died of the falling Sickness two stumbling Horses, as also one of their Riders.
1859 E. C. Gaskell Haunted House: Ghost in Garden Room in All Year Round Extra Christmas No., 13 Dec. 42/2 Then she heard him..go down stairs, with hurried, stumbling steps.
1859 Habits Good Society xv. 372 The tearful, stumbling speeches of ‘dear papa’ after champagne [at the wedding breakfast].
a1893 C. Rossetti Poems (1904) 209/1 Is there a path to Heaven My stumbling foot may tread?
1905 F. Treves Other Side of Lantern (1906) ii. xxvii. 164 Everywhere is the figure of the devout offering his stumbling prayer.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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