Bimble vs. Bumble

A gentle, meandering walk with no particular haste or purpose.

To walk with no particular haste or purpose.

To pretend to go for a local, leisurely paragliding flight but instead end up doing record breaking cross country flight.

Example: ‘Tim bimbled 175km from Aberfoyle to Inverness.’;

A confusion; a jumble.

A bumble-bee.

The bittern.

To act in an inept, clumsy or inexpert manner; to make mistakes.

Example: ‘Spiders build webs and wait for insects to bumble into them.’;

(intransitive) To boom, as a bittern; to buzz, as a fly.

The bittern.

To make a hollow or humming noise, like that of a bumblebee; to buzz; to cry as a bittern.

Example: ‘As a bittern bumbleth in the mire.’;

to act ineptly or without clear understanding of what one is doing; to blunder; to stumble about; - sometimes used with around.

to bungle (a task).

make a mess of, destroy or ruin;

Example: ‘I botched the dinner and we had to eat out’; ‘the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement’;

walk unsteadily;

Example: ‘The drunk man stumbled about’;

speak haltingly;

Example: ‘The speaker faltered when he saw his opponent enter the room’;