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NOUNS 3. a rough, wooded dip in the ground; a dingle, a wooded ravine (dialect) VERBS 1. to be sluggish or lazy and slow in movement (obsolete except dialect and Scottish) 2. to go about a thing awkwardly; to fumble (dialect) 3. to talk, mutter, or mumble in a sleepy, monotonous manner (obsolete except dialect and Scottish) 4. of water: to make muddy (Scottish) 5. to disturb, trouble, confuse (obsolete except dialect and Scottish) 6. to sound like a drum (obsolete) CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY variant of dumble, dummel, perhaps influenced by drone, or dromedary for verb 5: apparently a nasalized form of drubble (vb. to trouble, disturb), parallel to drumbly, drumly (adj.) from drubly; but possibly a back-formation from the adj., which occurs earlier for verb 6: apparently diminutive of drum (vb.) cf. Dutch and German trommeln, Daish. tromle, Swedish trumla to drum EXAMPLE From: Early English Dramatists Five Anonymous Plays Edited by John Stephen Farmer Appius and Virginia, Imprinted 1575
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