See bumble in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"incompetently",
"incompetently"
],
[
"carelessly",
"carelessly"
]
],
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"(intransitive) To act or move in an awkward or confused manner (often clumsily, incompetently, or carelessly)."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"attestations": [
{
"date": "from ca. 1719?",
"references": []
}
],
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"Northern England English",
"Scottish English"
],
"glosses": [
"To carry out (a task) clumsily, incompetently, or with many careless mistakes; to bungle, to botch."
],
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"clumsily",
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],
[
"incompetently",
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[
"careless",
"careless"
],
[
"bungle",
"bungle"
],
[
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"botch"
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],
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"(originally Scotland and Northern England, transitive) To carry out (a task) clumsily, incompetently, or with many careless mistakes; to bungle, to botch."
],
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"transitive"
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}
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},
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"lang_code": "bg",
"roman": "obǎrkvam se",
"sense": "move or act in an awkward or confused manner",
"word": "обърквам се"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"lang_code": "cs",
"sense": "move or act in an awkward or confused manner",
"word": "počínat si zmateně"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"lang_code": "cs",
"sense": "move or act in an awkward or confused manner",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "vrávorat"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"lang_code": "gl",
"sense": "move or act in an awkward or confused manner",
"word": "chafallar"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"lang_code": "gl",
"sense": "move or act in an awkward or confused manner",
"word": "enredar"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"lang_code": "gl",
"sense": "move or act in an awkward or confused manner",
"word": "tropezar"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "move or act in an awkward or confused manner",
"word": "herumeiern"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"lang_code": "mi",
"sense": "move or act in an awkward or confused manner",
"word": "tupehau"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"lang_code": "mi",
"sense": "move or act in an awkward or confused manner",
"word": "pakihawa"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"lang_code": "vi",
"sense": "move or act in an awkward or confused manner",
"word": "loạng quạng"
}
],
"word": "bumble"
}
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"word": "bumblebird"
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"date": "from ca. 1405",
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"To boom, as a Eurasian bittern."
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"(intransitive) To boom, as a Eurasian bittern."
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"To buzz or bum."
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"(intransitive, of an insect) To buzz or bum."
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"of an insect"
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"intransitive"
]
},
{
"attestations": [
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"date": "from 1911",
"references": []
}
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"To speak in a rambling, incoherent, or indistinct manner, especially at tedious length."
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[
"on",
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[
"rambling",
"rambling"
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"incoherent"
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[
"indistinct",
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],
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"intransitive"
]
},
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"date": "1675–1781",
"references": []
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"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English transitive verbs"
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"glosses": [
"To grumble at; to blame."
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[
"grumble",
"grumble"
],
[
"blame",
"blame"
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],
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"(transitive, obsolete) To grumble at; to blame."
],
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}
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"date": "from 1599",
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"A bumblebee."
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"A Eurasian bittern."
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"(UK, Ireland, dialect) A Eurasian bittern."
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}
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