† grumbledoryn.
Obsolete. rare.
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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)
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1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor v. iii. sig. Pivv The..Goggle-ey'd Grumbledoryes, would ha' Gigantomachiz'd. View more context for this quotation
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n.1600- to do as one would be done by
- to do as one would be done to
- to do austins
- to do away
- to do away with
- to do battle
- to do bird
- to do boot
- to do brown
- to do business
- to do business with
- to do business with a person
- to do by
- to do by a person's rede
- to do cheer
- to do chivalry
- to do circles around
- to do circles round
- to do civility
- to do company
- to do company to
- to do company to a person
- to do credit to
- to do days
- to do dere