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单词 drumble-dore
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drumble-dore
drumble-dore n. [ < drumble- comb. form + dor n.1; in quot. 1567 apparently with alteration after dromedary n. (compare forms with medial -l- at that entry)] Obsolete a clumsily-flying insect, esp. a bumblebee; (figurative) a sluggish, slow-witted person.
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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > person of weak intellect > confused, muddled person > [noun]
mafflardc1450
juffler15..
dromedary1567
madbrain1570
batie buma1586
addle-head1592
blunderkin1596
nit1598
addle-pate1601
hash1655
blunderbuss1692
blunderhead1692
shaffles1703
fog-pate1732
blunderer1741
puzzle-pate1761
slouch1767
étourdi1768
botch1769
puddle1782
bumble1789
scatter-brain1790
addle-brain1799
puzzle-head1815
shaffler1828
chowderhead1833
muddlehead1833
muddler1833
flounderer1836
duffer1842
muddle-pate1844
plug1848
incompetent1866
schlemiel1868
dinlo1873
drumble-dore1881
hodmandod1881
dub1887
prune1895
foozler1896
bollock1916
messer1926
Pilot Officer (also P.O.) Prune1942
spaz1965
spastic1981
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > member of family Bombidae (bumble-bee)
dora700
humble-beea1450
bumblebee1530
drumble bee1592
bumble1599
grumbledory1600
bumbee1605
bumbarda1614
dumbledore1787
foggie1819
bummer1822
bumbler1825
drumble drone1855
drumble-dore1881
1567 Triall of Treasure sig. Aiiiv Thou goest like a Dromeldory dreaming & drousy.
1749 J. Upton Remarks on Three Plays of Jonson 72 The word [sc. dor] is still preserved in the western parts of England where the bumble bee is called the drumble-dor.
1861 St. James's Mag. 2 5 The big heavy Drumble-dore is among bees what the Newfoundland is among dogs.
1881 C. M. Yonge Lads & Lasses Langley iv. 154 Poor Billy, he was but a drumble-dore of a boy, as his mother called him.
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