Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To bumble.
  • To blunder.
  • noun A bumblebee.
  • noun An idle fellow; a drone.

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Examples

  • The German usage is worth comparing with the obsolescent American bummer and with bummle in British dialect.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 1 1991

  • "T 'god o' flies taks out his book an 'begins to read t' list: 'Five hunderd mawks, three hunderd atter-cops, two hunderd an' fifty bummle-bees. '

    Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895

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