English Dictionary

dumbledore

/ˈdʌm.bəl.dɔː/

noun

(dialectal, archaic, old-fashioned) A bumblebee. / (dialectal) A beetle, typically a cockchafer or dung beetle. / (dialectal) A dandelion. / (slang) A blundering person.

Dumbledore is a wise and powerful wizard.

意味（1）

(dialectal, archaic, old-fashioned) 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.

意味（2）

(dialectal) 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 vulgaris.

意味（3）

(dialectal) A dandelion.

The Dandelion has a number of common names in Newfoundland. These include Dumbledore, Faceclock, and Piss-a-beds.

意味（4）

(slang) A blundering person.

1872, Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree