dumbledoren.
/ˈdʌmb(ə)ldɔː/ local.
A humble-bee or bumble-bee; also dialect a cockchafer.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > member of family Bombidae (bumble-bee)
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1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Dumble-dore, an humble, or bumble-bee.
1799 R. Southey in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) I. 264 Is it not the humble-bee, or what we call the ‘dumble dore’,—a word whose descriptive droning deserves a place in song?
1837 R. Southey Doctor IV. 383 Of Bees however let me be likened to a Dumbledore, which Dr. Southey says is the most goodnatured of God's Insects.
1856 C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain i. xxvi. 273 Buzzed and hummed over by busy, blacktailed, yellow-banded dumbledores.
1863 G. Kearley Links in Chain iii. 57 In Hampshire these insects [humble bees] are Dumbledors, in other districts Bumble bees, and hummel bees.
1880 M. A. Courtney W. Cornwall Words in M. A. Courtney & T. Q. Couch Gloss. Words Cornwall 19/2 Dumbledory, cockchafer.
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