1. A confused multitude of things
   "The attic was a jumble of old furniture, books, and forgotten mementos";
   - clutter, muddle, fuddle, mare's nest, welter, smother, scramble
    
2. A theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas
   "The report was a jumble of conflicting statistics";
   - patchwork, hodgepodge [N. Amer, informal], hotchpotch
    
3. Small flat ring-shaped cake or cookie
   "Grandma's recipe for jumbles included cinnamon and nutmeg";
   - jumbal [archaic]
    
4. [Brit] Items for a jumble sale
   "They collected jumble from neighbours for the charity sale"

1. Bring into random order
   "She jumbled the papers on her desk while searching for an important document";
   - scramble, throw together
    
2. Be all mixed up or jumbled together
   "His words jumbled";
   - mingle
    
3. Assemble without order or sense
   "She jumbles the words when she is supposed to write a sentence";
   - confuse, mix up

Derived forms: jumbling, jumbles, jumbled

Type of: assemble, be, cake, disarray, disorder, disorderliness, exist, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together, theory

Encyclopedia: Jumble, Jumble