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In some senses, dumbledore is marked as archaic, dated, slang. Watch for register when choosing this word.
ADJ.
busy
VERB + DUMBLEDORE
kills
DUMBLEDORE + NOUN
bee
ADV.
then
noun
A bumblebee.
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 —
A beetle, typically a cockchafer or dung beetle.
others may need to be informd 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, a cockchafer, a Melolontha vulgaris.
A dandelion.
The Dandelion has a number of common names in Newfoundland. These include Dumbledore, Faceclock, and Piss-a-beds.
A blundering person.
“Miserable dumbledores!” / “Right, William, and so they be—miserable dumbledores!” said the choir with unanimity.
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 dumbl
WiktionaryA 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 —
WiktionaryNow 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.
WiktionarySnape kills Dumbledore.
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In some senses, dumbledore is marked as archaic, dated, slang. Watch for register when choosing this word.