bumble

Plural: bumbles

Verb

Verb Forms: bumbled, bumbling, bumbles

• To move or act clumsily and awkwardly.
• make a mess of, destroy or ruin
• walk unsteadily
• speak haltingly
• To act or move in an awkward or confused manner (often clumsily, incompetently, or carelessly).
• To carry out (a task) clumsily, incompetently, or with many careless mistakes; to bungle, to botch.
• To boom, as a Eurasian bittern.
• To buzz or bum.
• To speak in a rambling, incoherent, or indistinct manner, especially at tedious length.
• To grumble at; to blame.

Noun

• A confusion; a jumble.
• A bumblebee.
• A Eurasian bittern.

Examples

• He began to BUMBLE his way through the game, making several poor tile choices.
• Spiders build webs and wait for insects to bumble into them.

Synonyms

ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bungle, falter, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil, stammer, stumble, stutter

Related Words

bumblebee, bumblebird, bumbledom, bungle, fumble, jumble

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