Word of the Day: DUMBLEDORE


ETYMOLOGY
compound of dumble (similar to bumble) +‎ dor (a buzzing flying insect)


EXAMPLE
“…I thank you for your poetry. What is the burnie-bee? Is it not the humble-bee, or what we call the ‘dumbledore‘ – a word whose descriptive droning deserves a place in song?…”

From: A Memoir of the Life and Writing of William Taylor
By John Warden Robberds, Sir Robert Southey, 1799

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