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語源 1

Onomatopoeia. Compare bungle, jumble, and fumble.

名詞

bumble (plural bumbles)

1. A confusion; a jumble.

動詞

bumble (third-person singular simple present bumbles, present participle bumbling, simple past and past participle bumbled)

1. (intransitive) To act or move in an awkward or confused manner (often clumsily, incompetently, or carelessly). [from 1530s]

   Spiders build webs and wait for insects to bumble into them.

2. (originally Scotland and Northern England, transitive) To carry out (a task) clumsily, incompetently, or with many careless mistakes; to bungle, to botch. [from ca. 1719?]

派生語

関連する語

• bungle
• fumble
• jumble
• rumble-bumble

語源 2

• Verb: Frequentative of boom and/or bum, equivalent to bum +‎ -le.
• Noun: From the verb.

動詞

bumble (third-person singular simple present bumbles, present participle bumbling, simple past and past participle bumbled)

1. (intransitive) To boom, as a Eurasian bittern. [from ca. 1405]
2. (intransitive, of an insect) To buzz or bum. [from 1689]
3. (intransitive, frequently with on) To speak in a rambling, incoherent, or indistinct manner, especially at tedious length. [from 1911]
4. (transitive, obsolete) To grumble at; to blame. [1675–1781]

関連する語

• bumblebee
• bumblebird

名詞

bumble (plural bumbles)

1. A bumblebee. [from 1599]
2. (UK, Ireland, dialect) A Eurasian bittern. [from 1813]

参考

• bumbledom

参照

• “bumble, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “bumble, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “bumble, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• “bumble, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “bumble (v.)”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.