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Definition of Drumble
1. v. i. To be sluggish or lazy; to be confused.
Definition of Drumble
1. Verb. (obsolete) to do something in a way that shows that one does not know what one is doing. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Drumble
1. to move slowly [v -BLED, -BLING, -BLES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drumble
Literary usage of Drumble
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gaelic Etymology of the Languages of Western Europe and More Especially by Charles Mackay (1877)
"He adds, how- | ever, " a drumble, in some parts of England, ... From further
dialectic researches it might have been found that drumble is still used as a ..."
2. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"Exm. drumble. To be sluggish ; to be confused in doing anything; to mumble. Weit.
... Лот/. DRUM BOW. A dingle, or ravine. Chah. Also called a drumble. ..."
3. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1901)
"The NED gives the sb. drumble, a sluggish person; and the verb drumble, ...
It would thus seem clear that drumble is a real word, of Scand. origin ; and it ..."
4. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1857)
"Exm. drumble, ». To be sluggish, or confused ; to mumble. West. drumble-BEE, s.
A humble-bee. D RUMBLED, adj. Made muddy. North. drumble-DRONE, s. A drone. ..."
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