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单词 bumbard
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bumbardn.adj.

Forms: pre-1700 bombard, pre-1700 bumbard, pre-1700 bumbart.
Origin: Probably formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: bum v.2, -ard suffix.
Etymology: Probably < bum v.2 (compare variants in -b at that entry) + -ard suffix. Perhaps compare bowbert n., attested in a similar sense in older Scots.
Scottish. Obsolete.
A. n.
1. A lazy or foolish person.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > [noun] > one who indulges in
praterc1500
bumbard?a1513
babbler?1555
jabberer1678
bag of wind1816
haverel1825
haverer1825
windbag1827
clatfarta1930
natterer1959
a1513 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen in Poems (1998) I. 43 Ane bumbart, ane dronbee, ane bag full of flewme.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 171 Carlis of nobillis hes the cure, And bumbardis brukis benefys.
a1527 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (Elphinstoun) (1957) i. Prol. l. 317 [The kyng of poetis ganys nocht for rurall estait Nor hys fresch memor for] bumbardis.
2. A bumblebee.
ΘΚΠ
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
a1614 J. Melville Autobiogr. & Diary (1842) 188 Lyk athercope wobbes that taks the sillie flies, bot the bumbarts braks throw tham!
B. adj.
Lazy, idle.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [adjective]
sweerc725
foridledc1230
idlea1300
faintc1325
recrayed1340
slewful1340
nicea1398
sleuthya1400
delicate?c1400
sleuthfulc1400
slothfulc1400
sloth1412
lurdanc1480
luskinga1500
luskish15..
droning1509
bumbard?a1513
slottery1513
desidiousa1540
lazy1549
slovening1549
truanta1550
sleuth1567
litherly1573
truantly1579
dronish1580
lubberly1580
truant-like1583
shiftless1584
sluggard1594
fat1598
lusky1604
sweatless1606
clumse1611
easeful1611
loselly1611
do-littlea1613
sluggardisha1627
pigritious1638
drony1653
murcid1656
thokisha1682
shammockinga1704
indolent1710
huddroun1721
nothing-doing1724
desidiose1727
lusk1775
slack-twisted1794
sweert1817
bone-lazya1825
lurgy1828
straight-backed1830
do-nothing1832
slobbish1833
bone idle1836
slouch1837
lotophagous1841
shammocky1841
bein1847
thoky1847
lotus-eating1852
fainéant1855
sluggardly1865
lazy-boned1875
do-naught1879
easy-going1879
lazyish1892
slobbed1962
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 151 Mony sweir bumbard [a1586 lumberd] belly huddroun.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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