Dumbledors vs Dumbledore - What's the difference?
dumbledors | dumbledore |
(dialectal) A bumblebee.
* 1875 Charlotte M Yonge, The Daisy Chain :
* 1899 Thomas Hardy, An August Midnight :
* 1970 May 21, Evening Telegram , page 3:
* 1987 Seán Virgo, Selakhi , Exile Editions, Ltd., page 20:
(dialectal) A beetle, typically a cockchafer or dung beetle.
* 1964 Transactions of the American Philological Association , American Philological Association, Ginn & Co., page 267:
(dialectal) A dandelion.
* 1975 Peter J. Scott, Edible Fruits and Herbs of Newfoundland , St. John’s, Memorial University Oxen Pond Botanical Park, page 39:
(slang) A blundering person.
* 1872 Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree , chapter 4:
As nouns the difference between dumbledors and dumbledore
is that dumbledors is plural of dumbledor while dumbledore is a bumblebee.dumbledore
English
(Bumblebee) (cockchafer)Alternative forms
* dumble-dor * dumbledorNoun
(en noun)- Those slopes of fresh turf, embroidered with every minute blossom of the moor — thyme, birdsfoot, eyebright, and dwarf purple thistle, buzzed and hummed over by busy, black-tailed, yellow-banded dumbledores .
- 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 —
- Now and then a dumbledore or ‘busy bee’ as they are called by some, propelled itself across our path, they being extremely large and heavy this year.
- A dumbledore , lured from the plantation, lies on its back, leaping and churning upon Seth’s bright pages.
- Others may need to be informed that a blastnashun straddlebob is a dumbledore , that is to say, a polyonymous lamellicorn coleopter, cald also a dorbeetle, a dorbug, a maybeetle, a maybug or a cockchafer, a Mflolontha rulgaris.
- The Dandelion has a number of common names in Newfoundland. These include Dumbledore , Faceclock, and Piss-a-beds.
- “Miserable dumbledores'!” / “Right, William, and so they be—miserable ' dumbledores !” said the choir with unanimity.