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bombinate

[ bom-buh-neyt ]

verb (used without object)

bombinated, bombinating.
  1. to make a humming or buzzing noise.


bombinate

/ ˈɒɪˌԱɪ /

verb

  1. literary.
    intr to make a buzzing noise Also (rare)bombilate
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌdzˈԲپDz, noun
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Other yvlog Forms

  • dzb·ԲtDz noun
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of bombinate1

First recorded in 1875–80; from New Latin dzٳܲ, past participle of dz, apparently coined by François Rabelais on the basis of Latin dz “to hum, buzz,” from Greek dzá𾱲, derivative of óDz; bomb
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of bombinate1

C19: from Latin dz , variant of dz to buzz
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They appealed to him as a group of carefully tailored Abstractions bombinating mellifluously in a void.

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V. roll, drum, rumble, rattle, clatter, patter, clack; bombinate†. hum, trill, shake; chime, peal, toll; tick, beat. drum in the ear, din in the ear.

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Like his co-workers he had been somewhat stampeded by Dorn's imitative faculties, faculties which enabled the former journalist to bombinate twice as loud in a void three times as great as any of his colleagues.

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