drumble

See drumly.

drumble (third-person singular simple present drumbles, present participle drumbling, simple past and past participle drumbled)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To be sluggish or lazy.
   • ante 1597, Shakespeare, William, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 3, Scene 3:

     Go, take up these clothes here. Quickly! Where's the / cowl-staff? Look how you drumble! Carry them to the / laundress in Datchet Mead. Quickly! Come.

2. (obsolete, intransitive) To be confused.
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To mumble in speaking.
4. (obsolete) to do something in a way that shows that one does not know what one is doing; to bungle or bumble.

• (to be sluggish): see Thesaurus:loiter

• drumbler

• rumbled