Obs. exc. Sc. Also 6 bomble, 8–9 Sc. bummil, -el. [See BUMBLE sb.2]

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  a.  intr. To blunder, flounder. See BUMBLING vbl. sb. b. trans. To bungle over; to do in a bungling manner.

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1532.  More, Confut. Tindale, Wks. (1557), 693/1. The thinge wher about he hath bombled all thys while. Ibid., 734/2. Which argument Tindall hath all thys while bumbled aboute to soyle.

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1719.  Ramsay, Epist. Hamilton, ii. ’Tis ne’er be me Shall … say ye bummil Ye’r poetrie.

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1807.  Stagg, Poems, 145. As for a bang he bummel’d … An’ down the warrior tumel’d.

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