Dumbledore
/ˈdʌmbəlˌdɔː/
noun
1.
(English, dialect) a bumblebee Also (Southwest English) drumbledrane
n.
1787, noted as a dialect word in Hampshire, Cornwall, etc. for “a bumblebee.”
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