1 entry found.
dumbledore (n.)
1787, a dialect word in Hampshire, Cornwall, etc. for "a bumblebee." Compare
bumble-bee
, also
dore
. The first element likely is imitative (
dumble-, bumble-, humble- drumble-
all seem to have been used interchangeably).
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