Bumble
verb
To move or talk in an awkward way.
He bumbled around his bedroom for a moment before finding his shoes
Often appears as...
- bumble around
- bumble over words
verb
To speak in a confused or indirect way.
He bumbled his way through the presentation
Often appears as...
- bumble an excuse
- bumble an apology
verb
To make a lot of mistakes.
I bumbled through the test and ended up failing
Often appears as...
- bumble through task
- bumble through job
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
noun
Excluding the cotton material; everything else except for the cotton.
The bumble is removed when processing the raw cotton
Often appears as...
- remove the bumble
- separate the bumble
Usage tips
Technical
Academic
verb
To move or talk in an awkward way.
He bumbled around his bedroom for a moment before finding his shoes
Often appears as...
- bumble around
- bumble over words
verb
To speak in a confused or indirect way.
He bumbled his way through the presentation
Often appears as...
- bumble an excuse
- bumble an apology
verb
To make a lot of mistakes.
I bumbled through the test and ended up failing
Often appears as...
- bumble through task
- bumble through job
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
noun
Excluding the cotton material; everything else except for the cotton.
The bumble is removed when processing the raw cotton
Often appears as...
- remove the bumble
- separate the bumble
Usage tips
Technical
Academic
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Clumsy Movement
Used for physically awkward actions, often humorous or endearing.
The puppy bumbled around the yard, tripping over its own feet.
Pro Tip 2/3Conveys Confusion
Highlights a lack of direction or certainty in someone's actions.
Lost in the dark, she bumbled around the room searching for the light switch.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Negative
Can be used affectionately to describe harmless, minor mistakes.
He bumbled his introduction, but his charm won the audience over.
Pro Tip 1/3Clumsy Movement
Used for physically awkward actions, often humorous or endearing.
The puppy bumbled around the yard, tripping over its own feet.
Pro Tip 2/3Conveys Confusion
Highlights a lack of direction or certainty in someone's actions.
Lost in the dark, she bumbled around the room searching for the light switch.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Negative
Can be used affectionately to describe harmless, minor mistakes.
He bumbled his introduction, but his charm won the audience over.
Pro Tip 1/3Clumsy Movement
Used for physically awkward actions, often humorous or endearing.
The puppy bumbled around the yard, tripping over its own feet.
Pro Tip 2/3Conveys Confusion
Highlights a lack of direction or certainty in someone's actions.
Lost in the dark, she bumbled around the room searching for the light switch.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Negative
Can be used affectionately to describe harmless, minor mistakes.
He bumbled his introduction, but his charm won the audience over.
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Video examples
Encouraging curiosity-dri...
microscope this is what we saw this is for the first time we've been able to visualize a fly feeding that you see on the right in real time this is a common housefly it's feeding on a sugar solution we have exotic species too we've been able to image all the way from bumble bees to mosquitoes to the
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An inventory of the...
You probably think the electrons in an electric wire move instantaneously down a wire, don't you, at the speed of light when you turn the light on. They don't. Electrons bumble down the wire, about the speed of spreading honey, they say. Galaxies, 100 billion of them estimated in the universe.
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Safari Live - Day 380 PIPE...
oh dear dear dear of course we're gonna stay here with Hosanna and see exactly what happens next because you never know what this boy and while we do that we're gonna send you back across the steep we have left the Lions you're just gonna bumble around a little bit and check
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Safari Live - Day 364 PIPE...
cheeky anyway we are just bumbling around the darkness is descended you probably notice we're in infrared spotlights out light saw a blaze and are we going to see what we can find this is a great time of evening to just come across a predator I think last night was about
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What's invisible? More...
down a wire, don't you, at the speed of light, when you turn the light on, they don't. Electrons bumble down the wire, about the speed of spreading honey, they say. Galaxies -- hundred billion of them, estimated in the universe. Hundred billion. How many can we see?
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Safari Live - Day 337 PIPE...
area so I'm just slowly cruising through they were only briefly seen but I am just keeping an eye out just in case as I am bumbling about this afternoon oh now I do have to apologize to everyone yesterday I had a little bit of a slip-up I'd said that the giraffes
Video examples
The Earth is full - Paul...
can support that if we choose the right path we can choose this moment of crisis to ask an answer the big questions of society's evolution like what do we want to be when we grow up when we move past this bumbling adolescence where we think
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Paul Gilding: The Earth...
like, what do we want to be when we grow up, when we move past this bumbling adolescence where we think there are no limits and suffer delusions of immortality? Well it's time to grow up, to be wiser, to be calmer, to be more considered.
Video examples
New Laser Zaps...
insects it would only target mosquitoes and let others such as butterflies and bumble bees to pass through unharmed the system can even distinguish between male and female mosquitoes based on their wing beats this is important because
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 372 PIPE...
I'm taking a humble bumble what a brilliant way of phrasing that that is now how I shall refer to bumbles forever afterwards where are you off to I'm on a
Video examples
Encouraging curiosity-dri...
microscope this is what we saw this is for the first time we've been able to visualize a fly feeding that you see on the right in real time this is a common housefly it's feeding on a sugar solution we have exotic species too we've been able to image all the way from bumble bees to mosquitoes to the
Video examples
An inventory of the...
You probably think the electrons in an electric wire move instantaneously down a wire, don't you, at the speed of light when you turn the light on. They don't. Electrons bumble down the wire, about the speed of spreading honey, they say. Galaxies, 100 billion of them estimated in the universe.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 380 PIPE...
oh dear dear dear of course we're gonna stay here with Hosanna and see exactly what happens next because you never know what this boy and while we do that we're gonna send you back across the steep we have left the Lions you're just gonna bumble around a little bit and check
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 364 PIPE...
cheeky anyway we are just bumbling around the darkness is descended you probably notice we're in infrared spotlights out light saw a blaze and are we going to see what we can find this is a great time of evening to just come across a predator I think last night was about
Video examples
What's invisible? More...
down a wire, don't you, at the speed of light, when you turn the light on, they don't. Electrons bumble down the wire, about the speed of spreading honey, they say. Galaxies -- hundred billion of them, estimated in the universe. Hundred billion. How many can we see?
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 337 PIPE...
area so I'm just slowly cruising through they were only briefly seen but I am just keeping an eye out just in case as I am bumbling about this afternoon oh now I do have to apologize to everyone yesterday I had a little bit of a slip-up I'd said that the giraffes
Video examples
The Earth is full - Paul...
can support that if we choose the right path we can choose this moment of crisis to ask an answer the big questions of society's evolution like what do we want to be when we grow up when we move past this bumbling adolescence where we think
Video examples
Paul Gilding: The Earth...
like, what do we want to be when we grow up, when we move past this bumbling adolescence where we think there are no limits and suffer delusions of immortality? Well it's time to grow up, to be wiser, to be calmer, to be more considered.
Video examples
New Laser Zaps...
insects it would only target mosquitoes and let others such as butterflies and bumble bees to pass through unharmed the system can even distinguish between male and female mosquitoes based on their wing beats this is important because
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 372 PIPE...
I'm taking a humble bumble what a brilliant way of phrasing that that is now how I shall refer to bumbles forever afterwards where are you off to I'm on a
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Tom Drury
American Writer
I don't think of my characters as bumbling. I think that trouble is what drives a novel, both big troubles and small troubles, and whatever people try to do in life, there are a series of stumbling-blocks in the way, and I think that makes for interesting reading. I think of them as doing their best with the roadblocks that they're given.
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Whitney Wolfe Herd
American Businesswoman
Bumble was founded with several key values: empowerment, equality, and kindness. We are a company that was built to empower women and empower men to respect women. We want to create a place where all types of connections take place: a platform and a brand where women always make the first move.
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Michael Morpurgo
English Author
I was rather a poor student, too easily distracted - did a lot of gazing out of windows, fine for training to be a writer, but not a great way to achieve in the classroom. The truth is that I was happy to bumble along and do enough to avoid detention, but not much more.
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Dominic Cummings
British Public Servant
In physics we have developed models that are extremely accurate across vastly different scales from the sub-atomic to the visible universe. In politics we have bumbled along making the same sort of errors repeatedly.
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Ashley Smith
American Celebrity
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
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Karan Mahajan
Indian Novelist
I think people have turned terrorists into these larger-than-life devils and so are unable to write about them in the obvious way, which is as human, petty, bumbling.
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Andrew Shaffer
American Author
If you're reading a mystery novel, you kind of want the character to solve the crime instead of completely bumble their way through it.
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Rory McCann
Scottish Actor
I don't have a mortgage, I don't have a wife and I don't have kids, so I'm quite happy bumbling along.
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Louis Theroux
British Director
I am genuinely a bit confused about the world, a little bit bumbling.
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Frank Gehry
American Architect
You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.
Quote examples
Tom Drury
American Writer
I don't think of my characters as bumbling. I think that trouble is what drives a novel, both big troubles and small troubles, and whatever people try to do in life, there are a series of stumbling-blocks in the way, and I think that makes for interesting reading. I think of them as doing their best with the roadblocks that they're given.
Quote examples
Whitney Wolfe Herd
American Businesswoman
Bumble was founded with several key values: empowerment, equality, and kindness. We are a company that was built to empower women and empower men to respect women. We want to create a place where all types of connections take place: a platform and a brand where women always make the first move.
Quote examples
Michael Morpurgo
English Author
I was rather a poor student, too easily distracted - did a lot of gazing out of windows, fine for training to be a writer, but not a great way to achieve in the classroom. The truth is that I was happy to bumble along and do enough to avoid detention, but not much more.
Quote examples
Dominic Cummings
British Public Servant
In physics we have developed models that are extremely accurate across vastly different scales from the sub-atomic to the visible universe. In politics we have bumbled along making the same sort of errors repeatedly.
Quote examples
Ashley Smith
American Celebrity
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
Quote examples
Karan Mahajan
Indian Novelist
I think people have turned terrorists into these larger-than-life devils and so are unable to write about them in the obvious way, which is as human, petty, bumbling.
Quote examples
Andrew Shaffer
American Author
If you're reading a mystery novel, you kind of want the character to solve the crime instead of completely bumble their way through it.
Quote examples
Rory McCann
Scottish Actor
I don't have a mortgage, I don't have a wife and I don't have kids, so I'm quite happy bumbling along.
Quote examples
Louis Theroux
British Director
I am genuinely a bit confused about the world, a little bit bumbling.
Quote examples
Frank Gehry
American Architect
You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.
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