fummel

See also: Fummel

English

Alternative forms

• funnel, fummle

Etymology

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Noun

fummel (plural fummels)

1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) A hinny (the hybrid of a male horse and a female donkey).
   • 1839 September 20, “Sporting Intelligence: Lichfield Meeting”, in Stockport Advertiser, volume 18, number 913, Stockport, page 3:

     After the conclusion of the regular sport, a match, two miles, came off between a fummel (2 yrs old) and a pony (aged, which seemed to excite some interest from the large cavalcade of horsemen who followed them round the course. The fummel won easy.

   • 1843 March 3, “To Be Sold by Auction, By B. Cheatle & Son”, in Leicester Journal, and Midland Counties General Advertiser, volume 92, number 4895, Leicester: James Jackson, page 2:

     Comprising eleven calved and in-calf cows and heifers, three barren cows, […] fifteen in-lamb ewes and theaves, […] yearling draught colt and filly, pony, yearling fummel, mare ass in-foal to a pony, two waggons, […]

   • 1845 January 8, “By Mr. Leedam”, in The Derby Mercury, volume 114, number 5870, Derby: Thomas Burroughs, page 2:

     Twelve useful in-calf Short-horned Dairy Cows, eleven in-calf Heifers, eleven Stirks, […] half-bred Filly by Spotswood, Fummel, 50 inlamb Leicester Ewes, 20 Ewe Hogs, […] about 5 Acres of White Turnips to be sold in lots, […]

Further reading

• “fummel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “funnel, n.²”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

German

Pronunciation

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Verb

fummel

1. inflection of fummeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʊm.məl/

Noun

fummel m (definite singular fummelen, indefinite plural fumlar, definite plural fumlane)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of fommel

fummel n (definite singular fummelet, indefinite plural fummel, definite plural fumla)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of fommel