Third person singular present tense of 'bumble': to move, speak, or act in a clumsy or confused way.
From the verb 'bumble,' derived from Middle Dutch 'bombelen,' originally imitating the buzzing sound of bees.
In old English texts, writers used 'bumbles' to describe both the literal buzzing of bees AND the confused speech of drunk people, showing how one onomatopoeia captured multiple types of chaos.
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