Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To sound like a drum.
- To mumble.
- To drone; be sluggish.
Wiktionary
- v. obsolete, intransitive To be sluggish or lazy.
- v. obsolete, intransitive To be confused.
- v. obsolete, intransitive To mumble in speaking.
- v. obsolete to do something in a way that shows that one does not know what one is doing.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To be sluggish or lazy; to be confused.
- v. obsolete To mumble in speaking.
Etymologies
- See drumly. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Cary took him by the hand, and asked pardon of him for his scoffing, saying that he had that day played the best man of all of them; and Jack, who never bore malice, began laughing in his turn, and — “Oh, Mr. Cary, we have all known your pleasant ways, ever since you used to put drumble-drones into my desk to Bideford school.””
“Go take up these clothes here quickly; wheres the cowl-staff? look, how you drumble! carry them to the laundress in Datchet-mead; quickly, come.”
“(The dialogue was held in the hall.) “Why do you hesitate and drumble in that manner?””
“Oh, Mr. Cary, we have all known your pleasant ways, ever since you used to put drumble-drones into my desk to Bideford school.”
“(The dialogue was held in the hall.) "Why do you hesitate and drumble in that manner?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘drumble’.
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goodkitten's list
there is going to be a lot of words...
flammivomous, pep, electrolyzation, research, constrain, why, refrigerator, invisible, windblown, curate's egg, echoism, drumble and 103 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2053 more...
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Philosophic , etymology
every major discipline has uniquely developed esoteric nomenclature to facilitate interdisciplinary dissemination
quale , qualia, elegy, tacet, lexicon, annunciate, caste, eros, contrive, purlicue, irony, venacular, dilapidate and 569 more...
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Thats a word?!
Unusual jumbles of letters that are actually words
asci, lin, avast, presumptuousness, drumble, repudiate, anile, feal, dawt, haver, apery, hoary and 10 more...
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Character traits
Falstaffian, drumble, despond, grotesque, élan, anile, feal, smart aleck, phat, blowsy, haver, hoary and 18 more...
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the beat & the break
words relating to rhythm
syncope, ascensional, sonant, syncopate, assonance, caesura, prosody, modulation, cadence, rhythm, interval, clitter and 34 more...
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derogatory terms I should use more often
assmarmot, scuzzbucket, scumbag, sleazebag, slimeball, swamp donkey, barathrum, cacafuego, clarty-paps, comprachico, ephemeromorph, creodont and 162 more...
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-bles
fine find endings
able, amble, bable, cable, cible, coble, dable, fable, gable, gible, tible, table and 241 more...
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Tawkward
Verbal 'wtf' exchanges; odd moments of conversation and socializing.
somniloquy, bafflegab, syllepsis, sesquipedalian, whinge, divulge, anacoluthon, anaphora, sumpsimus, persiflage, eristic, overtones and 198 more...
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jmjarmstrong's list
Words that I used to know.
geloscopy, hunker, willy nilly, harum scarum, whacko, meh, nork, misunderestimate, atrabiliousness, luftmensch, auxanometer, hyperhedonia and 1948 more...
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Words not to confuse
Words that unfortunately have more than one meaning that could either be taken as an insult or a compliment.
snipe, idiotism, piddle, jerk, insolence, drumble, dawt, phat, haver, apery, hoary, orra and 10 more...
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Old words that deserve revival
anywhen, batten, bedswerver, blashy, brightsome, bub, busk, canty, chuff, croodle, cumberworld, draggle and 42 more...
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Awesome words
fkhdvehdhdv
ouphe, hoiden, piddle, defenestrate, flic, desist, avast, cessation, extrapolate, temerity, effrontery, presumptuousness and 54 more...
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Did you just insult me?!
Words to use in moments of high frustration that they hopefully won't understand.
naïf, jerk, temerity, presumptuousness, presumptuous, arrogant, impudence, insolence, hick, bitch, asshole, ass and 61 more...
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Made of Awesome
The rare, the obsolete, the freakin' awesome.
petrichor, acrasia, agowilt, alexiteric, antapology, aspectabund, autophoby, bangstry, bever, blesiloquent, blive, bloncket and 55 more...
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albacore's list
neptune, offing, minimal, pop, mint, spleen, vespa, kraken, albatross, chinois, flume, flagrant and 24 more...
Tweets
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jmjarmstrong JM is not one to drumble so don't grumble. May 3, 2010
trivet Drum´ble
v. i. 1. To be sluggish or lazy; to be confused.
2. To mumble in speaking.
Aug 1, 2007