drumble

English

Etymology

See drumly.

Verb

drumble (third-person singular simple present drumbles, present participle drumbling, simple past and past participle drumbled)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To be sluggish or lazy.
   • ante 1597, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 3, Scene 3:

     Go, take up these clothes here. Quickly! Where's the / cowl-staff? Look how you drumble! Carry them to the / laundress in Datchet Mead. Quickly! Come.

2. (obsolete, intransitive) To be confused.
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To mumble in speaking.
4. (obsolete) To do something ineptly; to bungle or bumble.

Synonyms

• (to be sluggish): see Thesaurus:loiter

Derived terms

• drumbler

Anagrams

• rumbled