dumbledores

Noun

dumbledore (plural dumbledores)

1. (archaic, dialectal) A bumblebee.
   • Those slopes of fresh turf, embroidered with every minute blossom of the moor — thyme, birdsfoot, eyebright, and dwarf purple thistle, buzzed and hummed over by busy, black-tailed, yellow-banded dumbledores.1875, Charlotte M Yonge, The Daisy Chain
2. (dialectal) A beetle, typically a cockchafer or dung beetle.
   • others may need to be informd that a blastnashun straddlebob is a dumbledore, that is to say, a polyonymous lamellicorn coleopter, cald also a dorbeetle, a dorbug, a maybeetle, a maybug, a cockchafer, a Melolontha vulgaris.1964, American Philological Association, “Transactions of the American Philological Association”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), Ginn & Co., page 267
3. (dialectal) A dandelion.
   • The Dandelion has a number of common names in Newfoundland. These include Dumbledore, Faceclock, and Piss-a-beds.1975, Peter J. Scott, Edible Fruits and Herbs of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Memorial University Oxen Pond Botanical Park, page 39
4. (slang) A blundering person.
   • “Miserable dumbledores!” / “Right, William, and so they be—miserable dumbledores!” said the choir with unanimity.1872, [Thomas Hardy], chapter 4, in Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Tinsley Brothers, →OCLC, (please specify |part=I...

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