drumble

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verb

To be sluggish or lazy.

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loiter
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Meanings

verbdrumble (third-person singular simple present drumbles, present participle drumbling, simple past and past participle drumbled)

present singular third person drumbles · participle present drumbling · participle past drumbled · past drumbled

  1. intransitiveobsoleteTo be sluggish or lazy.

    Go, take up these clothes here. Quickly! Where's the / cowl-staff? Look how you drumble! Carry them to the / laundress in Datchet Mead. Quickly! Come.

    a. 1597, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 3, scene 3

    Synonyms: loiter

  2. intransitiveobsoleteTo be confused.
  3. intransitiveobsoleteTo mumble in speaking.
  4. obsoleteTo do something ineptly; to bungle or bumble.

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo be sluggish or lazy.

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loiter
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Origin

See drumly.

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Cite this entry
APA

drumble. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drumble

MLA

“drumble.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drumble. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “drumble,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/drumble.

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