bummel

What I am about to share with you I call an intellectual bummel, a bummel coming from a German word meaning a journey, long or short, with no specific destination or time of ending.

Salem-News.com 2009

A bummel, the narrator eventually explains, is "a journey, long or short, without an end; the only thing regulating it being the necessity of getting back within a given time to the point from which one started."

Archive 2008-12-01 2008

Or perhaps you were on a bummel of the purest nature.

A Complete Change 2008

A bummel, the narrator eventually explains, is "a journey, long or short, without an end; the only thing regulating it being the necessity of getting back within a given time to the point from which one started."

A Complete Change 2008

We had divine days in between, to be sure, when we'd prowl out into the woods around the city, with a picnic lunch, or bummel along the waterfront, ending at a counter we knew, which produced, or the man behind it produced, delectable and cheap clubhouse sandwiches.

An American Idyll The Life of Carleton H. Parker Cornelia Stratton Parker

We had divine days in between, to be sure, when we'd prowl out into the woods around the city, with a picnic lunch, or bummel along the waterfront, ending at a counter we knew, which produced, or the man behind it produced, delectable and cheap clubhouse sandwiches.

An American Idyll Parker, Cornelia Stratton, 1885- 1919

"Na, na, laddie," said Andrew after a pause to listen; "she's mair like ta collie tog when she sees a cat, or maype it's mair like ta bummel-bees among ta heather upo 'ta hills in bonnie Scotland."

Steve Young George Manville Fenn 1870

_bummel-zugged_ the two hundred and fifty miles or so from Ruhleben to the Dutch frontier, disguised as tourists, with a kit openly bought at

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 8, 1916 Various 1898