dumbledore

Noun

1. A bumblebee.
   • 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. - 1875,...
   • 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 — - 1899, Thomas Hardy, An August Midnight:
   • 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. - 1970 May 21, Evening Telegram, page 3:
2. A beetle, typically a cockchafer or dung beetle.
   • others may need to be informd 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, a cockchafer, a Melolontha...
3. A dandelion.
   • The Dandelion has a number of common names in Newfoundland. These include Dumbledore, Faceclock, and Piss-a-beds. - 1975, Peter J. Scott, Edible Fruits and Herbs of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Memorial University Oxen...
4. A blundering person.
   • “Miserable dumbledores!” / “Right, William, and so they be—miserable dumbledores!” said the choir with unanimity. - 1872, [Thomas Hardy], chapter 4, in Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School,...