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Dumbledore
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- 1 A bumblebee. archaic, dated, dialectal
"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."
- 2 A beetle, typically a cockchafer or dung beetle. dialectal
"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."
- 3 A dandelion. dialectal
"The Dandelion has a number of common names in Newfoundland. These include Dumbledore, Faceclock, and Piss-a-beds."
- 4 A blundering person. slang
"“Miserable dumbledores!” / “Right, William, and so they be—miserable dumbledores!” said the choir with unanimity."
Etymology
Compound of dumble (similar to bumble) + dor (“a buzzing flying insect”).
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