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fambel, femmel noun a finger, hand la16-. Compare fambel, famel etymology: Partridge: ‘famble a hand, Cant, probably from fumble’; attested by Galloway and Perthshire and Argyleshire Tinkler-Gypsies; form femmel also collected by Simson (1865) and attested in Shelta, Lexicon Balatronicum (1811) and by SR, BS in TDITA, SS; collected by RD note:

Form femmel cited by Canadian Paul Pope (2013) as ‘a finger, hand’ arm’.