bumble-bee
See also: bumble bee and bumblebee
English
editNoun
editbumble-bee (plural bumble-bees)
- Alternative spelling of bumblebee.
Yola
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English humbul-be.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbumble-bee
References
edit- 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