Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To sound like a drum.
- To mumble.
- To drone; be sluggish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To be sluggish or lazy; to be confused.
- intransitive verb obsolete To mumble in speaking.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete, intransitive To be
sluggish orlazy . - verb obsolete, intransitive To be
confused . - verb obsolete, intransitive To
mumble in speaking. - verb obsolete to do something in a way that
shows that one does notknow what one is doing.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Cary took him by the hand, and asked pardon of him for his scoffing, saying that he had that day played the best man of all of them; and Jack, who never bore malice, began laughing in his turn, and — “Oh, Mr. Cary, we have all known your pleasant ways, ever since you used to put drumble-drones into my desk to Bideford school.”
Westward Ho! 2007
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Go take up these clothes here quickly; wheres the cowl-staff? look, how you drumble! carry them to the laundress in Datchet-mead; quickly, come.
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(The dialogue was held in the hall.) “Why do you hesitate and drumble in that manner?”
Woodstock 1855
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"Oh, Mr. Cary, we have all known your pleasant ways, ever since you used to put drumble-drones into my desk to Bideford school."
Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847
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(The dialogue was held in the hall.) "Why do you hesitate and drumble in that manner?"
Woodstock; or, the Cavalier Walter Scott 1801
trivet commented on the word drumble
Drum´ble
v. i. 1. To be sluggish or lazy; to be confused.
2. To mumble in speaking.
August 1, 2007
jmjarmstrong commented on the word drumble
JM is not one to drumble so don't grumble.
May 3, 2010
qms commented on the word drumble
What hides in the syllable 'umble'
That makes all its settings so humble?
A tumble's a fall
(But only if small)
And a stumbling mumbler will drumble.
June 3, 2016