Dictionary Definition
bumble
Verb
1 make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the
dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the
difficult passage in the second movement" [syn: botch, fumble, botch up,
muff, blow, flub, screw up,
ball up,
spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up,
bollocks, bollocks up,
bobble, mishandle, louse up,
foul up,
mess up,
fuck
up]
3 speak haltingly; "The speaker faltered when he
saw his opponent enter the room" [syn: stutter, stammer, falter]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ʌmbəl
Verb
Noun
- A bumble-bee.
- (provincial) The bittern.
Related terms
Extensive Definition
Bumble may refer to:
- Bumblebee (also spelt bumble bee), a flying insect of the genus Bombus.
- Bumble Bees (song), the 2000 single by the Scandinavian dance-pop group Aqua.
- Bumble Bee Slim (real name Amos Easton, 1905–1968), a best-selling Blues artist in the 1930s.
Aircraft:
- ADI Bumble Bee, an ultralight gyrocopter.
- Bumble Bee II, the world's smallest piloted aeroplane.
People or characters:
- Simon Dew - brother to the Honorary Earl of Tulse Hill, a bumbling Toff fondly known by the nickname Bumble for his inability to complete a sentence whilst under pressure.
- Oliver B. Bumble, a fictional anthropomorphic bear in a series of Dutch comic books bearing by Marten Toonder.
- David Lloyd (cricketer), often known by the nickname Bumble.
- Mr. Bumble, a ghosty joe in the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist.
- Bumbles The species (and name) of the abominable snowman in the 1964 TV movie as named by Yukon Cornelius.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
be all thumbs, blow, blunder, blunder away, blunder
into, blunder on, blunder upon, bobble, boggle, bollix, bombinate, botch, bum, bungle, butcher, buzz, commit a gaffe, drone, faux pas, flounder, fumble, lumber, lurch, mar, miscue, mucker, muddle, muff, murder, play havoc with, screw
up, slip, snapper, spoil, strum, stumble, thrum, trip