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- noun chiefly UK A
gentle ,meandering walk with no particularhaste orpurpose . - verb chiefly UK, intransitive To
walk with no particular haste or purpose.
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Examples
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Some such as bimble, 'travel idly without purpose' tap into the ancient phonetic properties of the language.
On Kitchen Table Lingo DC 2008
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Some such as bimble, 'travel idly without purpose' tap into the ancient phonetic properties of the language.
Archive 2008-12-01 DC 2008
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Giants 22 Cowboys 20 - 1.34 3rd Quarter: Cowboys bimble up to midfield, then make their lives trickier with a false start penalty to make 3rd & 4, 3rd & 9, Romo is sacked by P-P and the drive is over.
New York Giants 37 Dallas Cowboys 34 - as it happened!| Steve Busfield 2011
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July 4, 2008 at 8: 48 pm lol bimble IS kind of cute actually.
Abortion And The Order Of Canada « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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All Canadians must make it unambiguous to our affirmative action, extreme left-wing bimble who lives in the Governor General †™ s mansion, and the other affirmative action, far-left bimble on the Supreme Court that they can not unilaterally affect the values of civilized Canadians who don†™ t revere murderers who butcher blameless living babies.
Abortion And The Order Of Canada « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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The plot, as such, is often just an excuse to bimble about the fantasy world.
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Hamster balls are tough – I know a girl who had a hamster at uni and used to let him bimble around the sitting room of the house in a hamster ball.
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"To bimble" - to potter about, especially in a rather old car.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Hubert van den Bergh 2012
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My dad used to bimble along at 35mph throughout the 1940s.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Hubert van den Bergh 2012
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"To bimble" - to potter about, especially in a rather old car.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Hubert van den Bergh 2012
qms commented on the word bimble
The critic is mentally nimble,
Uncovering subtext and symbol,
But given the chance
Reads tales of romance -
A thinking man’s indolent bimble.
April 4, 2018