Modern spoken language changes very dynamically, and sometimes it can be difficult for us to keep track of new slang words. What does it mean to "fumble" in the understanding of modern Russian-speaking people, you will learn in this article.
Using slang expression
Most Russian-speaking people know: this word was used in colloquial speech of Russian people before, but now it has become especially fashionable among young people, and you can already hear it much more often.
What it meant to fumble for people just a few years ago can be easily understood by analyzing numerous interviews, reading newspapers or just asking your friends. They will immediately answer you that to fumble is to understand something well, to master some activity at the level necessary to explain an object or phenomenon to another person.
Initial value
What does it mean to "fumble", a person who takes words in their literal sense will not understand, because the initial interpretation of this word sounds like this:
- Fumble - search by touch, try to find any thing in an inaccessible place, dig, dig, fingertip, probe. The word "fumble" is used in the context of the search for "in a hurry." Also, this word can be used in the meaning of "digging without demand in other people's things."
An intelligent person will not understand what the word "fumble" means, because if you select expressions, the word "search" will sound much more polite. One way or another, this word has the right to exist in the form of a slang expression.
What does it mean to fumble for young people?
The word "fumble" has become so popular, because among young people - users of the Internet and social networks - a real cult of fashion has arisen, every teenager seeks to dress in branded things or their more or less close to the original fakes.
Clothing and accessories from the nineties are in fashion with young guys now, clothes of street guys-skaters, clothes of THRASHER, PALACE and many others are again relevant today. Those young guys and girls who believe that they are versed in branded clothing and in modern fashion in general, say about themselves that they "rummage" in all existing fashion trends.
Some of the guys can really fumble in this, the rest are just interested in fashion, but do not have "deep knowledge" in it. One way or another, now every second young man uses the word "fumble", and the tendency to use it tells us that adults will also use slang.