Green’s Dictionary of Slang

to have sexual intercourse; thus jumbling n.

1521		Skelton Speke Parott line 412: galathea: Our clerke Cleros. Whythyr, thydyr and why not hethyr? For passe-a-Pase ys gone to catche a molle [...] What sequele shall follow? [...] parotte: To jumbyll, to stombyll, to tumbyll down lyke folys; [...] He maketh them to bere babylles.
1582		Stanyhurst Of Virgil his Æneis IV: Dido and thee Troian captayne shal iumble in one den.
1594		R. Barnfield Hellen’s Rape 3: Well to their worke they goe, and both they iumble in one Bed.
1600		Dekker Shoemakers’ Holiday IV iv: Girles, holde out tacke, For now smockes for this iumbling Shall goe to wracke.
1611		L. Barry Ram-Alley IV i: Your iumblings In horsflitters, coaches or caroatches, Haue spoild so many woman.
1621		R. Burton Anatomy of Melancholy 3.3.4.2: Matrimony without hope of children [...] is not a wedding but a jumbling or coupling together.
c.1631		R. Brome Queens Exchange Act V: As we pass’d by the Butlers chamber, I heard his bed crackle shrewdly, and I doubt, / The Dairy-maid and he were jumbling of / A Posset together.
1651		T. Randolph Hey for Honesty III iii: The wenches I’ll tumble and merrily jumble.
1660		‘Megg. Spencer’ A Strange and True Conference 7: Mrs Wroth in blew bell Court in Grub-street, who loves the jumbling of her own belly puddings.
1660–3		‘A Beggar I’ll Be’ in Farmer Musa Pedestris (1896) 27: But Simon and Susan, like Birds of a Feather / They kiss, and they laugh, and so jumble together.
1671		J. Crowne Juliana Act IV: I’d so jumble her and tumble her, I’d set her upon her head, and her heels, and kiss this end, and that end, and all in an honest way too.
1682		‘From Twelve Years Old I Oft Have Been Told’ in Farmer Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) II 93: He Rumbl’d and Jumbl’d me o’er, and o’er, / Till I found he had almost wasted the store / Of his Pudding.
c.1707		‘The Courtier & the Country Clown’ in Farmer Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) III 84: Your Courtiers clip and cull upon Beds, / We Jumble our Lasses upon the Grass.
1719		in D’Urfey Pills to Purge Melancholy III 236: If he be not hamper’d for serving me so, May I be worse Rumpl’d. Worse Tumbl’d, and Jumbl’d.
a.1731		N. Ward ‘Wine Beyond Love’ Miscellaneous Works IV 115: Let Mars and Venus jumble in the dark.
1734		C. Johnson Hist. of Highwaymen &c 436: Whilst he was jumbling me up against a Wall, Sirs, to pass the Time away, I play’d with his Watch .
1772		Bridges Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 390: That trim singing rogue apollo [...] Jumbled her up against a wall.
1797		Bridges Burlesque Homer (4th edn) II 187: [as cit. 1772].
1896		Farmer Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 49: Brouiller. To copulate; ‘to jumble’. [Ibid.] 92: Déliter. To copulate; ‘to jumble up’.