bumble-bee

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See also: bumble bee and bumblebee

English

Noun

bumble-bee (plural bumble-bees)

  1. Alternative spelling of bumblebee.

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Etymology

From Middle English humbul-be.

Pronunciation

Noun

bumble-bee

  1. bumblebee

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 28