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Bumble   /bˈəmbəl/   Listen
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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"Bumble" Quotes from Famous Books



... shoe on the Tubb! Where can the other one be? Look in your bunk And look in your trunk, And look in the bumble-bee tree!" ...
— The Rover Boys on the River - The Search for the Missing Houseboat • Arthur Winfield

... "What in the world do you want with bees? Isn't it bad enough around the farm already with yellow-jackets and bumble-bees, without bringing any more here? I should think you would get stung enough by the wild bees without wanting to bring a lot of ...
— Hidden Treasure • John Thomas Simpson

... with the aroma of these flowers, and in places the slope looked like a cultivated garden. The only birds seen that afternoon above timber-line were those already mentioned. What do the birds find to eat in these treeless and shrubless altitudes? There are many flies, some grasshoppers, bumble-bees, beetles, and other insects, even in these arctic regions, dwelling among the rocks and in the short grass below them watered by the ...
— Birds of the Rockies • Leander Sylvester Keyser

... engaged in writing a story, he had removed but one-eighth of his mind for the consideration of mundane affairs, and that, as any one knows, is insufficient to judge fairly whether the winged thing I was reaching out for was a fly or a bumble bee. In the morning, the story being finished and the other seven-eights of brain at liberty to dwell upon the same question, he decided to follow me, with the result that in the afternoon I rode ...
— A Woman Tenderfoot • Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson

... toy theatre at Easton and among other things dramatized the minority report of the Poor Law Commission. The play began by the Commissioners taking to pieces Bumble the Beadle, putting him into a huge cauldron and stewing him. Then out from the cauldron leaped a renewed rejuvenated Bumble several sizes larger ...
— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Maisie Ward


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