subs. (old).—An impotent man.

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  c. 1696.  B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew. FUMBLER, c, an unperforming husband; one that is insufficient; a weak Brother.

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  1719.  D’URFEY, Wit and Mirth; or Pills to Purge Melancholy, vi., 312. The old FUMBLER [Title].

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  1785.  GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.

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  c. 1790.  BURNS, The Merry Muses, ‘David and Bathsheba,’ p. 40.

        ‘By Jove,’ says she, ‘what’s this I see,
  My Lord the King’s a fumbler.’

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