drumble

verb — 4 senses

verb

Etymology See drumly.

Obsolete To 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:

Obsolete To be confused.

Obsolete To mumble in speaking.

Obsolete To do something ineptly; to bungle or bumble.

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