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drumble

drumble verb: to be sluggish or lazy.

Verb

drumble (third-person singular simple present drumbles, present participle drumbling, simple past and past participle drumbled)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To be sluggish or lazy.
    • Go, take up these clothes here. Quickly! Where's the / cowl-staff? Look how you drumble! Carry them to the / laundress in Datchet Mead. Quickly! Come.a. 1597, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 3, scene 3
    Synonyms:
    loiter
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To be confused.
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To mumble in speaking.
  4. (obsolete) To do something ineptly; to bungle or bumble.

drumble meaning in Tamil

drumble in Tamil

மந்தமான

Synonyms of drumble

Forms of drumble

third-person singular presentdrumbles
present participledrumbling
past participledrumbled
pastdrumbled

Origin of drumble

See drumly.

Words formed from drumble

Questions about drumble

What does drumble mean?
Drumble means to be sluggish or lazy.
What is drumble in Tamil?
Drumble in Tamil is மந்தமான. See Drumble meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is drumble?
Drumble is a verb.
What is the past tense of drumble?
The past tense of drumble is drumbled.

Words near drumble in the dictionary

  1. drumbeaters
  2. drumbeating
  3. drumbeatings
  4. drumbeats
  5. Drumbeg
  6. drumble
  7. drumbled
  8. drumbledore
  9. drumbledores
  10. drumbles
  11. drumbling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: drumble (page history and authors); drumble (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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