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bumblingverb1present participle of bumble to fly, turn, or move rapidly with a fluttering or vibratory sounda fly bumbling around the room while we were trying to sleep burring, buzzing, droning, humming, whirring, whishing, whizzing, zipping, zooming chirring, churringthrummingfizzing, hissing, murmuring, purring, rustling, sighing, sizzling, swishing, whisperingcooing, curringwheezing, whistling, whooshing bumblingverb2present participle of bumbleto make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful wayaccused the White House staff of bumbling the announcement of the replacement for the cabinet post blowing, bobbling, boggling, bollixing (up), booting, botching, buggering (up), bungling, butchering, dubbing, flubbing, fluffing, foozling, fouling up, fumbling, goofing (up), lousing up, mangling, messing (up), mucking up, muffing, murdering, screwing up blundering, gumming (up), muddling, pifflingblemishing, blighting, damaging, flawing, harming, hurting, impairing, injuring, marring, mutilating, ruining, spoiling, vitiatingdestroying, wreckingmishandling, mismanaging ameliorating, bettering, enhancing, helping, improving, meliorating, rectifying, refining, reforming, remedyingdoctoring, fixing, patching, reconditioning, renovating, repairing, revamping to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectuallyI sort of bumbled through the dance number, hoping that it would soon end blundering, flogging(British), floundering, limping, lumbering, plodding, struggling, stumbling, trudging jogging, shambling, shufflingwallowing, welteringfaltering, lurching, reeling, staggering, swaying, teetering, totteringfumbling, muddling coasting, flying, gliding, kilting, sailing, zipping, zooming to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligiblyovercome with stage fright, I could only bumble through the speech babbling, chattering, chatting, driveling(or drivelling), drooling, gabbling, gibbering, jabbering, prattling, sputtering blabbering, blathering, bleating, blithering, gabbing, jangling, jawing, pattering, prating, rattling, running on, smattering, tittle-tattling, trolling, yakking(also yacking)chuntering(British), maundering, mouthing, mumbling, murmuring, mutteringstammering, stutteringscreeching, shouting, shrieking articulating, enunciating, pronouncing in 1660 |