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bumbledoms

bumbledoms is the plural of bumbledom.

Meaning of bumbledom

Noun

bumbledom (countable and uncountable, plural bumbledoms)

  1. bureaucracy; mannerisms characteristic of pompous, arrogant or pretentious officials.
    • With the meekness went a strain of mild obstinacy exquisitely calculated to infuriate the self-important bumbledom of that time, as when the Friends refused to remove their hats before the Court that was to try them.1942, G.M. Trevelyan, Illustrated English Social History, Digitized edition, Longman's Green and Co., published 2003

Questions about bumbledoms

What is bumbledoms the plural of?
Bumbledoms is the plural of bumbledom.

Words near bumbledoms in the dictionary

  1. bumblebirds
  2. Bumbleby
  3. bumbled
  4. bumbled along
  5. bumbledom
  6. bumbledoms
  7. bumblefeet
  8. bumblefoot
  9. bumblefooted
  10. Bumblefuck
  11. bumbleheaded

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