Word to the Wise: Skimble-Skamble

“Skimble-skamble” (skim-bul-SKAM-bul) – probably coined by William Shakespeare – means rambling and confused.

Example (as used in Shakespeare’s Henry IV): “Sometimes he angers me / With telling me of the moldwarp and the ant, / Of the dreamer Merlin and his prophecies, / And of a dragon and a finless fish… / And such a deal of skimble-skamble stuff… .”

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