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bimbling

bimbling is the present participle and gerund of bimble.

Meaning of bimble

Verb

bimble (third-person singular simple present bimbles, present participle bimbling, simple past and past participle bimbled)

  1. (UK, colloquial, intransitive) To walk or travel with no particular haste.
    • Check-in ran like clockwork and after unpacking, we bimbled off to the cycle centre, hired two bikes and a kiddy trailer for the boys and set off to get our bearings.2007 January 28, Paul Simon, “Surf, snow and city in one break”, in The Observer, UK, retrieved 18 Jan 2009
    Synonyms:
    dander, roam, saunter, wander

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Questions about bimbling

What is bimbling the present participle and gerund of?
Bimbling is the present participle and gerund of bimble.

Words near bimbling in the dictionary

  1. Bimbimbie
  2. bimble
  3. bimble box
  4. bimbled
  5. bimbles
  6. bimbling
  7. bimbo
  8. bimbo eruption
  9. bimbo eruptions
  10. bimbocore
  11. bimbodom

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