单词 | bumbledom |
释义 | bumbledomn. depreciative. Petty local bureaucracy; officious and pompous behaviour by minor officials; officials of this type collectively. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > pomposity > [noun] pompositya1538 ventosity?1545 pontificality1600 bigness1634 fast1673 swell1724 bumbledom1847 highfalutin1847 highfalutination1858 pompousness1870 largeness1887 falutin1921 hugaboo1930 stuffed-shirtedness1981 fantasia- 1847 Express 10 Sept. 2/2 That head-quarter of Bumbledom, the Mansion-house of the City of London. 1856 Sat. Rev. 2 12/1 The collective Bumbledom of Westminster. 1865 Spectator 22 Apr. 427 There spoke the true spirit of parish Bumbledom. 1921 S. E. Morison Maritime Hist. Mass. xxii. 340 A banquet, not for owners and bankers and all bumbledom, but for the mothers, wives, and sweethearts of the workingmen who built the ship. 1991 Times 9 July 15/1 Bumbledom can be thanked for prevaricating over the future of the Hampton's site for a full 32 years. 2011 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 23 July The Blue Badge Scheme..is maladministered with varying degrees of inefficiency and bumbledom by county councils throughout the country. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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