bumble-bee

See also: bumble bee, and bumblebee

English

Noun

bumble-bee (plural bumble-bees)

1. Alternative spelling of bumblebee.

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English humbul-be.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʊmbl̩ˈbiː/

Noun

bumble-bee

1. bumblebee

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 28