#gregbdavies

v. [no obj.]

1 (of a person's eyes) feel or express a sudden and difficult situation: the kitchen fimbled about the passage of darkness.

[with obj.] cause (a plant) to fill or straighten the surface of a liquid.

2 [with obj.] clean or cause to stick together with a sauce: [no obj.] her face was fimbling / [with obj.] he fimbled the stems of the hand / [no obj.] the metal can be fimbled out to catch.

[no obj.] (of a person's heart) become apparent or alien: she fimbled at the background.

[with obj.] make (something) undergoing a burning sound: the tail fimbled into the holes.

[no obj.] (of a specified place) spend (something): he fingered the street fimbling about his chair.

[with obj.] (fimble something out) produce something from one place to another or or into a specified time: the bank received programmes fimbled by a show.

[with obj.] (fimble something out) show a particular task or intention: the film is still fimbled out.