humblebee
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 18
- Words With Friends
- 22
- Letters
- 9
Definition of humblebee
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(obsolete)A bumblebee.
“The Fox, the Ape, and the Humble-Bee, Were ſtill at oddes being but three.”
“1800's, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Humblebee Burly, dozing humblebee, Where thou art is clime for me.”
“Hence I have very little doubt, that if the whole genus of humble-bees became extinct or very rare in England, the heartsease and red clover would become very rare, or wholly disappear.”
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Etymology
From Middle English humbul-be, humbulbe, hombul-be, from *humbul (“bumblebee”) + be (“bee”). See also West Frisian hommel (“bumblebee”), Dutch hommel (“bumblebee”), German Low German Hummel (“bumblebee”), German Hummel (“bumblebee”), Swedish humla (“bumblebee”), Norwegian humle (“bumblebee”); also cognate with Dutch hommelbij (“bumblebee”), Danish humlebi (“bumblebee”). Compare also English humble (“to hum”).
Words you can make from humblebee
44 playable · top: HUMBLE (13 pts)
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1 word5-letter words
3 words4-letter words
11 words3-letter words
18 words2-letter words
10 wordsHooks
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