How do you pronounce skimble-skamble?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈskɪmb(ə)lˌskæmb(ə)l/.

skimble-skamble

/ˈskɪmb(ə)lˌskæmb(ə)l/

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"[S]ometime he angers me / With telling me of the Mouldwarp and the Ant, / Of the dreamer Merlin and his prophecies, / And of a Dragon and a finles fiſh, / A clipwingd Griffin and a molten rauen, / A couching Leon and a ramping Cat, / And ſuch a deale of skimble ſcamble ſtuffe / As puts me from my faith."
"[Y]ou should hae made a' things plain and positive to Katherine. Such skimble-skamble, yea and nay kind o' ways willna do wi' women."
"Some of this exuberant, large-scale movie is charming and inventive, and some of it is pitifully trashy, in the style of Ken Russell's skimble-skamble burlesques of [Pyotr Ilyich] Tchaikovsky, [Gustav] Mahler, and [Franz] Liszt."
"He spoke some skimble-skamble stuff and I asked a couple of questions, and then I had to laugh."
"Did you read his skimble-skamble about * * being at the head of his own profession, in the eyes of those who followed it?"
"None of the questions directed at Chavalit [Yongchaiyudh] were serious enough to make him think before he delivered his beat-around-the-bush response. He put the nation in deep shame – again – with his unenlightened skimble-skamble."

Reduplication of scamble (“to move about pushing and jostling, struggle for place or possession, scramble; to mangle”). The term was popularized by William Shakespeare’s use of it in the play Henry IV, Part 1 (c. 1597): see the quotation.

skimble-scamble (alternative)