Bumble
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late Middle English (in the sense ‘hum, drone’): from boom1 + -le4.
wiktionary
Onomatopoeia. Compare bungle, jumble, and fumble.
bumble (third-person singular simple present bumbles, present participle bumbling, simple past and past participle bumbled)
etymonline
bumble (v.)
"to flounder, blunder," 1530s, probably of imitative origin. Related: Bumbled; bumbler; bumbling. Bumble-puppy (1801) was a name for various outdoor sports and games.
Bumble
"self-important petty official," 1856, from the name of the fussy, pompous, stupid beadle in Dickens' "Oliver Twist." Related: Bumbledom.