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Bumbled vs Rumbled - What's the difference?

bumbled | rumbled |

As verbs the difference between bumbled and rumbled

is that bumbled is (bumble) while rumbled is (rumble).

bumbled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (bumble)

    • 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

    rumbled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (rumble)

    • Anagrams

    *

    rumble

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (dialectal)

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • An onomatopoeia describing a rumbling noise

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach.
    • The rumble from passing trucks made it hard to sleep at night.
  • (slang) A street fight or brawl.
  • A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.
  • (dated) A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.
  • * Charles Dickens
    • Kit, well wrapped, was in the rumble behind.

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To make a low, heavy, continuous sound.
    • If I don't eat, my stomach will rumble .
    I could hear the thunder rumbling in the distance.
  • To discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour.
    • The police is going to rumble your hideout.
  • To move while making a rumbling noise.
    • The truck rumbled over the rough road.
  • (slang) To fight; to brawl.
  • To cause to pass through a rumble, or polishing machine.
  • (obsolete) To murmur; to ripple.
  • * Spenser
    • to rumble gently down with murmur soft

    Anagrams

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