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verb

Bumble v. t. To bungle (a task).

Bumble v. i. To make a hollow or humming noise, like that of a bumblebee; to buzz; to cry as a bittern. "As a bittern bumbleth in the mire."

Bumble v. i. To act ineptly or without clear understanding of what one is doing; to blunder; to stumble about; sometimes used with around.

noun

Bumble n. (Zool.) The bittern. (Local, Eng.)

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Etymology of 'Bumble'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bumble" Quotes from Famous Books

... now master of the situation, and he directed ten thousand bees under General Bumble, and another ten thousand wasps under Colonel Hornet, to fall on the robber and cruel Sigli and sting them to death. But this was hardly necessary, as the wriggling of their bodies so fixed them to the figure that they ...

— Tales from the Lands of Nuts and Grapes - Spanish and Portuguese Folklore • Charles Sellers and Others

... certainly have most outspoken cousins! They don't seem to hesitate to tell me what to bring and what not to bring them. But I'm sure of one thing! Bumble Barlow won't be so fussy particular; she'll take whatever I ...

— Patty in Paris • Carolyn Wells

... mysteriously affected by her indignation the absurd Fyne dog began to bark in the porch. It might have been at a trespassing bumble-bee however. That animal was capable of any eccentricity. Fyne got up quickly and went out to him. I think he was glad to leave us alone to discuss that matter of his journey to London. A sort of anti-sentimental journey. He, too, ...

— Chance - A Tale in Two Parts • Joseph Conrad

... in the garden seemed to be an endless source of pleasure to the girl; she would sit for hours looking at the pale lilac-tinted wistaria clusters hanging over the naked wall and watching plundering bumble-bees ...

— Athalie • Robert W. Chambers

... day a jolly bumble-bee, In coat of black and yellow, Got caught inside a window-pane; The silly ...

— Cinderella; or, The Little Glass Slipper and Other Stories • Anonymous

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