bumble

Onomatopoeia. Compare bungle, jumble, and fumble.

bumble (plural bumbles)

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

(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.
(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?]

move or act in an awkward or confused manner

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

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

bumble (plural bumbles)

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