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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Onomatopoeia. Compare bungle, jumble, and fumble.
Noun
bumble (plural bumbles)
- A confusion; a jumble.
Verb
bumble (third-person singular simple present bumbles, present participle bumbling, simple past and past participle bumbled)
- To act in an inept, clumsy or inexpert manner; to make mistakes.
Spiders build webs and wait for insects to bumble into them.
Derived terms
Translations
move or act in an awkward or confused manner
Etymology 2
- Verb: Frequentative of boom and/or bum, equivalent to bum + -le.
- Noun: From the verb.
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Verb
bumble (third-person singular simple present bumbles, present participle bumbling, simple past and past participle bumbled)
- (intransitive) To boom, as a Eurasian bittern.
- (intransitive) To buzz, as a fly.
Noun
bumble (plural bumbles)
- A bumble-bee.
- (UK, Ireland, dialect) The Eurasian bittern.