Reading
Shortcuts
Home
All Articles
Read from Another Site
Sources
Wikipedia
Simple Wikipedia
VOA Learning English
Futurity
The Conversation
MIT News
Harvard Gazette
Cambridge News
YDS/YÖKDİL Passages
Topics
Technology
Engineering
Business
Economics
Human
Health
Energy
Biology
Nature
Space
Log in
Sign up
History
Add
bumbledom
noun
[ ˈbʌmb(ə)ldəm ]
• officious and pompous behaviour by minor officials.
• "a vast increase in bureaucracy, pen-pushing, and bumbledom"
Origin:
mid 19th century: from the name of Bumble, the beadle in Dickens's Oliver Twist, + -dom.
