Usually means: Clumsily move or act awkwardly.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. bumble: Merriam-Webster
  2. Bumble, bumble: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bumble, bumble: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bumble: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bumble: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bumble, bumble: Wordnik
  7. bumble: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bumble: Wiktionary
  9. bumble: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Bumble, bumble: Dictionary.com
  11. Bumble, bumble (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Bumble (Oliver Twist), Bumble (TV series), Bumble (app), Bumble: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Bumble: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. bumble: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. bumble: Rhymezone
  16. bumble: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. Bumble: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  18. Bumble: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  19. bumble: FreeDictionary.org
  20. bumble: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. bumble: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. bumble: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. bumble: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  24. bumble: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  25. bumble: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bumble: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bumble: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bumble, bumble, bumble: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. bumble: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A confusion; a jumble.
verb:  (intransitive) To act or move in an inept, clumsy or inexpert manner, often making mistakes.
verb:  (originally Scotland and Northern England, transitive) To carry out (a task) clumsily, incompetently, or with many careless mistakes; to bungle, to botch
verb:  (intransitive) To boom, as a Eurasian bittern.
verb:  (intransitive) To buzz, as a fly.
noun:  A bumble-bee.
noun:  (UK, Ireland, dialect) The Eurasian bittern.

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