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▪ I. bummel, n. and v.|ˈbʊməl, ˈbʌməl|
[a. G. bummel a stroll, bummeln to stroll; cf. bummer3.]
A. n. A leisurely stroll or journey.
B. v. intr. To stroll or wander in a leisurely fashion. Hence ˈbummelling vbl. n., wandering, sauntering.
[1891Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Aug. 3/2 The verb to ‘bummeln’, apparently an equivalent of the French ‘flâner’. Ibid., We do not ‘bummeln’ so much or so thoroughly as the Germans.] 1900J. K. Jerome (title) Three Men on the Bummel. Ibid. xiii. 284 He..lays out his time bummelling, beer drinking, and fighting. Ibid. xiv. 327 A ‘Bummel’..I should describe as a journey, long or short, without an end. 1909Daily Chron. 24 July 6/4 Hitherto it has been the proud prerogative of males [in Berlin] to ‘bummel’ (loaf). 1947F. Smythe Again Switzerland x. 187 It is an easy mountain..a ski runner's ‘bummel’. 1952H. W. Tilman Nepal Himalaya ii. xviii. 212, I had already been ‘bummeling’ about Nepal for five months.
▪ II. bummel, -il
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