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English
Noun
bumble-bee (plural bumble-bees)
- Alternative spelling of bumblebee.
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Etymology
From Middle English humbul-be.
Pronunciation
Noun
bumble-bee
- 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