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bumble (v.)
"to flounder, blunder," 1530s, probably of imitative origin. Related:
Bumbled
;
bumbler
;
bumbling
.
Bumble
"self-important petty official," 1856, from the name of the fussy, pompous, stupid beadle in Dickens' "Oliver Twist."