bumbleverb [ I + adv/prep ]
uk/ˈbʌm.bəl/us/ˈbʌm.bəl/to speak or move in a confused way
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Inability and awkwardness
- accident-prone
- all thumbs idiom
- amateurish
- at your worst idiom
- awkward
- boil
- gauche
- geek
- ham-fisted
- have nothing on sb or sth idiom
- have two left feet idiom
- incapacitate
- nerd
- no great shakes idiom
- not have a prayer idiom
- obey
- organize
- paralysed
- prone
- rubbish
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Moving unsteadily or with difficulty
Examples from literature
- An enormous trailer-truck combination came bumbling toward them.
- Bees bumbled among the flowers and flew past, laden.
- The squadron, though, went bumbling upward.
- Well, dearie, dearie me, the sight of you is good for tired eyes, Charlotte, she bumbled in her rich, deep old voice.
- When the shadow of a branch would cross that slowly lumbering vehicle, the swarm would rise and bumble around distractedly for a moment before settling down again.