bombinatev.
To buzz, make a buzzing noise.
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a1553 F. Rabelais ii. vii Questio subtilissima, utrum chimera in vacuo bombinans possit comedere secundas intentiones. (In ridicule of the subtle discussions of the Schoolmen.)]
1880 A. C. Swinburne Study of Shakespeare (ed. 2) iii. 199 As easy and as profitable a problem to solve the Rabelaisian riddle of the bombinating chimæra.
1880 Daily News 21 June The power of a chimæra bombinating in a vacuum to eat second intentions is scarcely less suggestive of a..solution.
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