dumbledore

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"Mother allus said I'd no more sense in my yead than a dumbledore," George candidly confessed.

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  1. The bumblebee. Betsy called it [the monk's hood] the dumbledore's delight. Southey, The Doctor, viii.
  2. The brown cockchafer.

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  • I think that anyone who wants a jacob / bella ship r just wishing their miserable love relationships on fictional characters ... this is like the Harry / hermione ship: never going to happen and those shipers are only going to get angry and yell at the correct ppl. "it is easier to 4give ppl 4 being wrong then being right" - albus dumbledore —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • PS - maybe she should be more like albus dumbledore and not completely trust anyone. human nature being the way it is, she'll have to be a bit more careful ...... emily Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 08: 37 PM EST —  Entertainment Weekly's Hollywood Insider
  • "Mother allus said I'd no more sense in my yead than a dumbledore," George candidly confessed. —  Jan of the Windmill
  • And by a dumbledore he meant a humble-bee. —  Jan of the Windmill
  • A longlegs, a moth, and a dumbledore; —  Figures of Several Centuries
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  1. English dial., also written dumbledor; from dumble = Dutch dommelen, buzz, mumble, slumber, doze (perhaps ult. imitative, like bumble-, humblebee), + dore, dor, a bumblebee, a black beetle, a cockchafer: see dor.
 

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