Dumbledore

Alternative forms

 * dumble-dor
 * dumbledor

Etymology
From dumble + dor.

Noun

 * 1)  A bumblebee.
 * 2) * 1875 Charlotte M Yonge, The Daisy Chain
 * Those slopes of fresh turf, embroidered with every minute blossom of the moor — thyme, birdsfoot, eyebright, and dwarf purple thistle, buzzed and hummed over by busy, black-tailed, yellow-banded dumbledores.
 * 1) * 1899 Thomas Hardy, An August Midnight
 * A shaded lamp and a waving blind, / And the beat of a clock from a distant floor: / On this scene enter – winged, horned, and spined – / A longlegs, a moth, and a dumbledore —
 * 1) * 1970 May 21, Evening Telegram, p3
 * Now and then a dumbledore or ‘busy bee’ as they are called by some, propelled itself across our path, they being extremely large and heavy this year.
 * 1) * 1987 Seán Virgo, Selakhi, Exile Editions, Ltd., p20
 * A dumbledore, lured from the plantation, lies on its back, leaping and churning upon Seth’s bright pages.
 * 1)  A beetle, typically a cockchafer or dung beetle
 * 2) * 1964 Transactions of the American Philological Association, American Philological Association, Ginn & Co., p267
 * Others may need to be informed that a blastnashun straddlebob is a dumbledore, that is to say, a polyonymous lamellicorn coleopter, cald also a dorbeetle, a dorbug, a maybeetle, a maybug or a cockchafer, a Mflolontha rulgaris.
 * 1)  a dandelion
 * 2) * 1975 Peter J. Scott, Edible Fruits and Herbs of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Memorial University Oxen Pond Botanical Park, p39
 * The Dandelion has a number of common names in Newfoundland. These include Dumbledore, Faceclock, and Piss-a-beds.
 * 1)  a blundering person
 * 2) * 1872 Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree, chapter 4
 * “Miserable dumbledores!” / “Right, William, and so they be—miserable dumbledores!” said the choir with unanimity.

Synonyms

 * bumblebee

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