bombinate

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Like his co-workers he had been somewhat stampeded by Dorn's imitative faculties, faculties which enabled the former journalist to bombinate twice as loud in a void three times as great as any of his colleagues.

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  1. intransitive verb To buzz; hum.

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  • Like his co-workers he had been somewhat stampeded by Dorn's imitative faculties, faculties which enabled the former journalist to bombinate twice as loud in a void three times as great as any of his colleagues. —  Erik Dorn
 

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  1. Late Latin bombināre, bombināt-, variant of Latin bombilāre, from bombus, a rumbling, buzzing; see bomb.

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  1. from Middle Latin *bombinatus, past participle of *bombinare, erroneous form of Late Latin bombitare: see bombilate.
 

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