RUMBLE, RUMBLING
ADJECTIVES
► BEARISH of a voice or sound: deep and rumbling; gruff → 1706
► BUMBLING making a low humming, rumbling, or buzzing noise, like that of an insect → 1556
► LUMBERING rumbling → 1678 obs.
► RUMBELOW rumbling, resounding → 1582 obs.
► RUMBLY characterized by rumbling → 1829
NOUNS
► BLUMBERING a rumbling, lumbering noise → 1556
► BLUITER a rumbling noise → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BOMBULATION a loud booming or rumbling sound, as that from the blast of an explosion → 1646
► BOMBUS noise in the form of rumbling or gurgling sounds by the movement of gas in the gastrointestinal tract → 1668 medical usage, obs.
► BRUM a roaring or rumbling noise – later, especially that made by a moving motor vehicle or its engine → 1885
► BUBBLING a rumbling or booming sound → 1398 obs.
► COLLYWOBBLES a disordered state of the stomach characterized by rumbling in in the intestines → 1823 colloq.
► CURLING a rumbling in the bowels → 1495 obs.
► CURMURRING a low rumbling, growling, or murmuring sound → 1787 Sc.
► DUNDER a loud, reverberating noise; a loud rumble → 1780 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► GROWLERY a growling, rumbling, or grumbling → 1830
► GUMBLES noises or rumblings → 1900 Eng. dial. obs. (Bk.)
► GURGULATION a rumbling in the bowels → c1400 obs.
► HURLING a rumbling of the bowels → 1400 obs.
► INTONATION a rumbling or roaring, as of thunder → 1658
► LUMBER a rumbling noise → 1752
► REEMISH ► REMISH a loud, rumbling noise, esp. the sound caused by a body falling; a weighty stroke or blow → 1742 Sc.
► REJUMBLE a rumbling of the stomach → 1866 Eng. dial.
► RUCTING rumbling of gas in the intestines → 1599 obs.
► RUMBLEMENT a rumbling; a rumbling noise → 1604
► RUMBLIFICATION a loud rumbling noise → 1732
► STRUMBLE a rumble → 1938
VERBS
► BLUITER to make a rumbling noise → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BRUM of a motor vehicle: to make a roaring or rumbling noise while moving → 1950
► BUBBLE to rumble, to make a booming sound → 1435 obs.
► CLONDRE to make a rumbling noise, to drone → 1325 obs.
► CROAK of the stomach or bowels: to make a rumbling noise → 1547 obs.
► CROWL to rumble or make a sound in the stomach and bowels → 1519 obs.
► DRUMBLE to make a noise like the beating of a drum, to rumble → 1830
► DUNDER to make a loud deep resounding noise; to reverberate, to rumble → 1724 chiefly Sc. & Eng. dial.
► GOTHELE to make a low rumbling noise, as is heard in the bowels → 1290 obs.
► GURL to rumble, to growl → c1380 obs. exc. Sc.
► HUMBLE to rumble; to mumble; to hum or buzz as a bee → 1384 obs.
► JUMBLE to make a confused or rumbling noise; to play discordantly or noisily on an instrument, to strum → 1530 obs.
► LUMBER to rumble, to make a rumbling noise → 1527 obs. exc. US
► REEMISH ► REMISH to make a loud, rumbling noise → 1904 Sc. (Bk.)
► ROUT to rumble, to roar → a1000
► STRUMBLE to rumble → 1645 obs.
► THUMBLE to rumble as thunder → 1584 obs.
► WHURL to make a roaring or rumbling noise → 1530 obs.
► WOOFLE of a motor vehicle or its engine: to make a low, throbbing or rumbling sound → 1910