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dumbling

dumbling noun: one who is unintelligent, dumb, or stupid; a dummy; idiot.

Noun

dumbling (plural dumblings)

  1. One who is unintelligent, dumb, or stupid; a dummy; idiot.
    • Gaignebet does not find savage irony in the punchlines about poor protagonists who are such dumblings they do not know that penises do not grow back.1999, Marina Warner, Monsters of Our Own Making
    • The self-described "dumbling" plowed through Les Miserables, perhaps identifying with the persecuted Jean Valjean, but each time he closed the book, there were the mug, the bucket, the chamber pot, the bars.2007, Bruce Watson, Sacco and Vanzetti

Forms of dumbling

pluraldumblings

Origin of dumbling

From dumb + -ling.

Questions about dumbling

What does dumbling mean?
Dumbling means one who is unintelligent, dumb, or stupid; a dummy; idiot.
What part of speech is dumbling?
Dumbling is a noun.
What is the plural of dumbling?
The plural of dumbling is dumblings.

Words near dumbling in the dictionary

  1. Dumbledorian
  2. dumbledors
  3. dumbles
  4. Dumbleton
  5. Dumbletons
  6. dumbling
  7. dumblings
  8. dumbly
  9. dumbness
  10. dumbnesses
  11. dumbnut

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