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drumble-
(also 6 dromel-, 9 drummel-, drumle-), in names of insects, a variant of dumble-.
[Cf. drumble n.1]
† drumble-bee, a humble- or bumble-bee (obs.). drumble-dore, a clumsily-flying insect, a dor-beetle, or bumble-bee; fig. a heavy stupid fellow; app. sometimes associated with dromedary. drumble-drone, a drone-bee, a bumble-bee.
1567Triall Treas. (1850) 6 Thou goest like a dromeldory, dreamy and drowzy. 1596Nashe Saffron Walden F iij b, Your fly in a boxe is but a drumble-bee in comparison of it. 1746Vocab. in Exmoor Scold. (E.D.S.) 65/2 Drumble-drane, a drone or humble bee. 1855Kingsley Westw. Ho! (1861) 290 Since you used to put drumble-drones into my desk to Bideford school. 1881C. M. Yonge Lads & Lasses Langley iv. 154 Poor Billy, he was but a drumble-dore of a boy, as his mother called him. 1894Blackmore Perlycross 69, I must a' been mazed as a drummeldrone. |