Meanings
present singular third person bimbles · participle present bimbling · participle past bimbled · past bimbled
- UKcolloquialintransitiveTo walk or travel with no particular haste.First known use 1980s
Check-in ran like clockwork and after unpacking, we bimbled off to the cycle centre, hired two bikes and a kiddy trailer for the boys and set off to get our bearings.
2007 January 28, Paul Simon, “Surf, snow and city in one break”, in The Observer, UK, retrieved 18 Jan 2009
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA walk or journey with no particular haste.
Origin
Probably an alteration or variant of bumble (verb), perhaps influenced semantically by association with amble (verb). This term is originally nautical and military in usage, and is previously used outside the current meaning of traveling on foot.
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bimble. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bimble
“bimble.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bimble. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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