Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To sound like a drum.
- To mumble.
- To drone; be sluggish.
Wiktionary
- v. to do something in a way that shows that one does not know what one is doing.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To be sluggish or lazy; to be confused.
- v. To mumble in speaking.
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?”
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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