humbuzzn.
dialect.
1. A local name of the cockchafer.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Lamellicornia Scarabaeoidea > family Scarabaeidae > genus Melolontha > member of (cockchafer)
chaferc1000
kafer1599
cockchafer1668
miller1668
May-bug1688
May-beetle1720
oak-web1720
humbuzz1756
May-chafer1766
dor-beetle1774
locust1790
fern-web1796
melolonthian1841
lamellicorn1842
furze-owl1847
rose beetle1856
melolonthid1928
billywitch1933
1756 W. Toldervy Hist. Two Orphans I. 124 What are there called humbuzes, by the Londoners cock-chafers.
c1820 M. M. Sherwood May-bee 13 William had caught another may-bee, or cockchafer, or humbuzz (for so that insect is called in different places).
2. A thin piece of wood with a notched edge which is swung round rapidly by a string, and emits a loud humming sound, like the flight of a cockchafer; a bullroarer.
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1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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