Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The bumblebee.
- n. The brown cockchafer.
Wiktionary
- n. dialectal A bumblebee.
- n. dialectal A beetle, typically a cockchafer or dung beetle
- n. dialectal a dandelion
- n. slang a blundering person
Etymologies
- Compound of dumble (“similar to bumble”) + dor (“a buzzing flying insect”). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Gay kids need role models as to straight kids, dumbledore is a great one for both!”
“20 October, 2007 at 4: 21 pm dumbledore is GAY « Sara Speaking”
“Maybe have dumbledore and harry arrive on the watchtower with the dark mark already looming in the sky overhead, with the sound of a battle raging on below.”
“Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” is worst of the series » Scene-Stealers
“There's a really helpful dialect glossary at the end of the book which has added some good new words to my daily conversation, and now I know what a dumbledore really is I can tell you that we've got loads in the garden at the moment, and they don't have white beards or wear wizard hats.”
“Pass the dumbledore please, have a nice dumbledore.”
“In the movie dumbledore told harry to leave and harry ended up under everyone watching what was going on. why did snape appear and point his wand at harry and then leave to kill dumbledore.”
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - What Did You Think? | /Film
“My BIGGEST PROBLEM with the movie is when dumbledore and harry return from the cave, in the book dumbledore uses a spell to immobilize harry under his invisibility cloack, and harry couldnt move untill dumbledore was killed so harry couldnt do anything to save him.”
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - What Did You Think? | /Film
“I'm a very big fan of the books, liked the first 3 movies and hated the last two except for voldemort vs dumbledore fight.”
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - What Did You Think? | /Film
“Greg Luse has anyone noticed that one of them has a super brief shot of dumbledore falling from atop the astronomy tower?”
4 New TV Spots For Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince | /Film
“WWDD, a set of challenges to honor the teachings of Dumbledore and dominate the social media realm by taking over Twitter with the hashtag #dumbledore. mashable”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dumbledore’.
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Nincompoopery
Words that clatter and tumble
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JK Rowling's Magical Vocabulary
muggle, pensieve, boggart, animagus, grim, occlumency, polyjuice potion, howler, horcrux, deatheater, gryffindor, ravenclaw and 49 more...
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Most Obscure Words
acatalectic, acosmism, acuate, acuminate, adscititious, adytum, akratisma, alieniloquy, allelomorph, allochiria, allodium, alnage and 620 more...
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harry potter words
quidditch, apparate, disapparate, lumos, snitch, pensieve, dementor, azkaban, wingardium, leviosa, horcrux, bludger and 376 more...
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O! Timballo
for the same
tea-poy, pooking fork, ait, eyot, quodlibet, milk leg, tussie-mussie, calash, gueules, caitiff, bindery, demi-rep and 226 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Random Words I Like
Just a list of really random words that I like!
penultimate, glockenspiel, hypothesis, awesome, smidgen, leprechaun, vibrant, crisp, twilight, pi, dumbledore, cheese and 11 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for dumbledore.
sionnach a bumblebee
A shaded lamp and a waving blind,
And the beat of a clock from a distant floor:
On this scene enter – winged, horned, and spined –
A longlegs, a moth, and a dumbledore.
Thomas Hardy, ‘An August Midnight’, 1899. Oct 11, 2007