Meaning of dumbledore | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A bumblebee.
   archaic, dated, dialectal
2. A beetle, typically a cockchafer or dung beetle.
   dialectal
3. A dandelion.
   dialectal
4. A blundering person.
   slang

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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 —”

“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.”

“A dumbledore, lured from the plantation, lies on its back, leaping and churning upon Seth’s bright pages.”

“others may need to be informd 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, a cockchafer, a Melolontha vulgaris.”

“The Dandelion has a number of common names in Newfoundland. These include Dumbledore, Faceclock, and Piss-a-beds.”

““Miserable dumbledores!” / “Right, William, and so they be—miserable dumbledores!” said the choir with unanimity.”

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