To mix or confuse.
Why dost thou blend and jumble such inconsistencies together?
To meet or unite in a confused way.
I tried to study, but in my half-awake state, all of the concepts seemed to jumble together.
A mixture of often unrelated things.
His voice was rich and mellow and he had so long been thoroughly persuaded of the weight and import to mankind of any word he said that his words really had come to sound as if there were something in them. But now he can only whisper, and what he whispers sounds like what it is—mere jumble and jargon.
From Middle English jumbelen, alteration of jumbren, jombren, a variant of jumpren, frequentative of jumpen (“to jump”), equal to jump + -le. More at jumber, jump, jumper.
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Items for a rummage sale.
Hire a stall at a fair or sell your wares at a car boot sale. Adjust your jumble's price to something very reasonable and attractive for people to buy. Your income will depend on the quality and quantity of the jumble […]
A small, thin, sugared cake, usually ring-shaped.