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Bumble vs Lumbering - What's the difference?

bumble | lumbering |

As nouns the difference between bumble and lumbering

is that bumble is a confusion, jumble or bumble can be a bumble-bee while lumbering is the act of one who lumbers; heavy, clumsy movement.

As a verb bumble

is to act in an inept, clumsy or inexpert manner; to make mistakes or bumble can be to boom, as a bittern; to buzz, as a fly.

As an adjective lumbering is

clumsy or awkward.

bumble

English

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeia. English onomatopoeias Compare bungle, jumble, and fumble.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A confusion, jumble.

    • Verb

    (bumbl)
  • To act in an inept, clumsy or inexpert manner; to make mistakes.
    • Spiders build webs and wait for insects to bumble into them.

    Derived terms

    * Bumblefuck

    Related terms

    * bungle * fumble * jumble

    Etymology 2

    * Noun: From the verb. * Verb: Frequentative of boom'' and/or ''bum , equivalent to .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bumble-bee.
  • (UK, dialect) The bittern.

    • Verb

    (bumbl)
  • To boom, as a bittern; to buzz, as a fly.

    • Related terms

    * bumble-bee English terms with multiple etymologies

    lumbering

    English

    Noun

  • The act of one who lumbers; heavy, clumsy movement.
  • * 1887 , Hall Caine, The Deemster
    • Only the old harbor-master was there, singing out, as by duty bound, his lusty oaths at their lumberings .
  • (US) The business of felling trees for lumber.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Clumsy or awkward.
  • Heavy, slow and laborious; ponderous.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}