Citations:dumbledore

Noun: "a bumblebee"

 * 1) * 1833 John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth & John Denson, Magazine of natural history, volume 6, p173
 * The humble-bee, Bombýlius májor, or dumbledore, as it is called, makes holes very commonly in these walls, in which it deposits a kind of farina [...]
 * 1) * 1852 John Yonge Akerman, Spring-tide: or, The angler and his friends, R. Bentley, p56
 * Yes, Simon is quite right; and therefore, when you do fish for chub, use a good large, hairy palmer, or an imitation of the humble-bee or dumbledore, as they call it hereabouts.
 * 1) * 1856 Robert Southey, The doctor, &c, Longman, Green, p343
 * Of Bees, however, let me be likened to a Dumbledore, which Dr. Southey says is the most goodnatured of God’s Insects; because great must be the provocation that can excite me to use my sting.
 * 1) * 1866 John George Wood, Homes without hands: Being a description of the habitations of animals, classed according to their principle of construction, Harper & Brothers, p158
 * Any Humble-bee, no matter what species, is known as a Bumble-bee, a Foggie, a Dumbledore, or a Hummel-bee, according to the peculiar dialect of the locality [...]
 * 1) * 1868 George Smith, Cornhill, Smith, Elder and company, p600
 * She taught him what were lucky signs - for instance, never to turn a dumbledore (humble bee) out of the house...
 * 1) * 1869 James Jennings, The dialect of the west of England: Particularly Somersetshire; with a glossary of words now in use there; also with poems and other pieces exemplifying the dialect, p143
 * Came! why d’ye drean zaw? – hum, hum, hum;- you da make a naise like a spinnin turn, or a dumbledore – all in one lidden – hum, hum, hum, - You’ll niver lorn ta read well thic fashion.
 * 1) * 1875 Charlotte M Yonge, The Daisy Chain
 * Those slopes of fresh turf, embroidered with every minute blossom of the moor — thyme, birdsfoot, eyebright, and dwarf purple thistle, buzzed and hummed over by busy, black-tailed, yellow-banded dumbledores.
 * 1) * 1876 Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing, Jan of the Windmill: a story of the plains
 * “Mother allus said I’d no more sense in my yead than a dumbledore,” George candily confessed. And by a dumbledore he meant a humble-bee.
 * 1) * 1899 Thomas Hardy, An August Midnight
 * A shaded lamp and a waving blind, / And the beat of a clock from a distant floor: / On this scene enter – winged, horned, and spined – / A longlegs, a moth, and a dumbledore —
 * 1) * 1970 May 21, Evening Telegram, p3
 * Now and then a dumbledore or ‘busy bee’ as they are called by some, propelled itself across our path, they being extremely large and heavy this year.
 * 1) * 1976 Ray Guy & Eric Norman, You may know them as sea urchins, ma'am: writings, Breakwater Books, p15
 * If you think this is lies, Mrs. Aunt Milly Hynes out home could pick up a vicious dumbledore in her bare fingers, easy as pie, and not get stung.
 * 1) * 1987 Seán Virgo, Selakhi, Exile Editions, Ltd., p20
 * A dumbledore, lured from the plantation, lies on its back, leaping and churning upon Seth’s bright pages.

Noun: "a cockchafer or dung beetle"

 * 1) * 1866 Edward Caldwell Rye, British beetles: an introduction to the study of our indigenous Coleoptera, Lovell Reeve, p117
 * Geotrupes stercorarius, the well-known “shard-born beetle,” “Clock,” or “Dumble-dor” (the last possibly an inflection of the American “Tumble-dung,” a name given on account of certain of these insects rolling pellets of the excrement of cattle, in which they deposit their eggs), is common all over the country [...]
 * 1) * 1882 J.G. Wood, Common British insects, selected from typical beetles, moths and butterflies of Great Britain, p101
 * One of the commonest English species, Geotrupes stercorarius, popularly known as the CLOCK, the DOR BEETLE, the FLYING WATCHMAN, the DUMBLE-DOR, and similar names, according to the locality in which it lives.
 * 1) * 1924 S. N. Sedgwick, The British nature book: a complete handbook and guide to British nature study, embracing the mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, insects, plants, etc., in the United Kingdom,T.C. & E.C. Jack, p207
 * The Common Dor Beetle (which is not pictured), G. stecorarius, “DUMBLEDOR” or “CLOCK” BEETLE, also known as the “WATCHMAN.”
 * 1) * 1964 Transactions of the American Philological Association, American Philological Association, Ginn & Co., p267
 * Others may need to be informed that a blastnashun straddlebob is a dumbledore, that is to say, a polyonymous lamellicorn coleopter, cald also a dorbeetle, a dorbug, a maybeetle, a maybug or a cockchafer, a Mflolontha rulgaris.

Noun: "a dandelion"

 * 1) * 1975 Peter J. Scott, Edible Fruits and Herbs of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Memorial University Oxen Pond Botanical Park, p39
 * The Dandelion has a number of common names in Newfoundland. These include Dumbledore, Faceclock, and Piss-a-beds.

Noun: "a blundering person"

 * 1) * 1872 Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree, chapter 4
 * “Miserable dumbledores!” / “Right, William, and so they be—miserable dumbledores!” said the choir with unanimity.