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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To make a buzzing or humming, like a bee, or a top when spinning.

Wiktionary

  1. v. rare To hum or buzz.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. rare To hum; to buzz.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. make a buzzing sound

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  1. hum
  1. buzz

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  1. bombinate

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  • michaelt42 "The entire building was bombilating like a cicada."
    Matt Cantor; Some Cures for Noisy Neighbors; The Berkeley Daily Planet (California); Oct 9, 2008.

    Actually, cicadas stridulate. May 12, 2013

  • milosrdenstvi Related to bumblebee -- possibly etymologically through Greek bombulos, but possibly only onomatopoetically. Oct 19, 2009

  • jmjarmstrong JM can't hear the humming above the buzzing so shouts "Bombilate Away!" to clear the air. Oct 17, 2009

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‘bombilate’ has been looked up 1477 times, added to 11 lists, commented on 3 times, and has a Scrabble score of 15.