English

Noun

famble ‎(plural fambles)

1. (obsolete, slang) A hand.
   • Beaumont and Fletcher

     We clap our fambles.

   • Georgette Heyer, The Quiet Gentleman

     A Bow Street Runner says "I knew a cove as talked the way you do – leastways, in the way of business I knew him! In fact, you remind me of him very strong […] He was on the dub-lay, and very clever with his fambles. He ended up in the Whit, o’ course."

Etymology 2

Old English falmelen

Verb

famble ‎(third-person singular simple present fambles, present participle fambling, simple past and past participle fambled)

1. (obsolete) To stammer.

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Krio

Etymology

English fambly

Noun

famble

1. A family.
   • 1995, Masée Touré, Bai Bureh's Countrymen, ISBN 0-85756-189-9, page 12:

     Pa Gasama spoke in Krio, a language that was common to all; 'Famble den who na kushe oh'.