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Dickensian beadle, beginning to behave like Uriah Heep?
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bumble
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Word definitions for bumble in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to flounder, blunder," 1530s, probably of imitative origin. Related: Bumbled ; bumbler ; bumbling .\n
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bumble \Bum"ble\, v. i. to act ineptly or without clear understanding of what one is doing; to blunder; to stumble about; -- sometimes used with around.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. A confusion, jumble. vb. To act in an inept, clumsy or inexpert manner; to make mistakes. Etymology 2 n. 1 A bumble-bee. 2 (context UK dialect English) The bittern. vb. (context intransitive English) To boom, as a bittern; to buzz, as a fly. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bumble is a New Zealand children's television series for children ages 2–7 featuring a magical bee. The title character is played by Jason Gunn . The series is produced for TVNZ by Gunn's wife, Janine Morrell-Gunn. It also features Bumble's friends: Peek, ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Officials bumbled through their explanations of why the hospital had been bombed. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Despite Dulles's bumbling, these interests were secure. ▪ Freedom party scandals as well as bumbled performances ...
Usage examples of bumble.
The Absentminded Bumbling Bookish Boob a Bit Too Frequent in His Use of the Sauce.
So, although he may yet be a bit of a bumbler, something of a bookish boob, a man given to a bit too much drinking, and still a klutz much top humanly prone to err, let us keep sight of the fact that he is learning something of the verities of Life-for he is, above all, a man of good intentions.
She shook her head, unable to answer, just as a large fat bumble bee flew dozily towards her.
So that is how this anti- war activist, a near- blind, bumbling draftee, became a second lieutenant leading an army platoon in the war against Japan in the South Pacific.
I turned the Bumbler on Festina, I could see the germs in her lungs, her stomach, her digestive tract, her bloodstream.
Please recall that as a fribble of the highest order I am much more interested in my own assorted schemes and bumble broths to give a thought to anyone else.
That enormous wet tongue caught the back of my knees as the loopy creature bumbled after us.
Terrorists will always be depicted as proper Charlies: bumbling incompetents, jargon-spouting nitwits, psychotic illiterates, scruffy unlaid losers barely competent to light the fuse and retire in correct sequence.
Briefly El wondered how far along the road those two bumbling mages had gotten to yestereve on their recalcitrant mules.
And you have made the Meth into bumbling imitations of the humans you admire.
Thirty seconds later, I was on my feet, the Bumbler strapped to my back, and my stunner in hand.
A milk float bumbled up the Ealing Road and stopped before the Flying Swan.
Sunday morning, after a grueling trek from Winchester, Captain John Daniel Imboden and his four smoothbore six-pounders bumbled into Manassas.
Hungarian and bossy, a creature of muumuus and dyed auburn tresses, which she wears parted down the center and plastered into place with sprays that have sat on the grocery-store shelves since the beehive hairdo bumbled out of fashion in 1966.
Their honest, sincere bumbling testimonies made a terrific impact on other addicts.