bumble-bee

== English == === Noun === bumble-bee (plural bumble-bees) Alternative spelling of bumblebee. == Yola == === Etymology === From Middle English humbul-be. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈbʊmblˌbiː/ === Noun === bumble-bee bumblebee === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 28