Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

BUMBLEDOM

Specialty Definition: BUMBLEDOM

DomainDefinition

Literature

Bumbledom The dominion of an overbearing parish officer, the arrogance of parish authorities, the conceit of parish dignity. (See above.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Top     

Synonyms within Context: BUMBLEDOM

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Government

Monarchy; kinghood, kingship; royalty, regality; aristarchy, aristocracy; oligarchy, democracy, theocracy, demagogy; commonwealth; dominion; heteronomy; republic, republicanism; socialism; collectivism; mob law, mobocracy, ochlocracy; vox populi, imperium in imperio; bureaucracy; beadledom, bumbledom; stratocracy; military power, military government, junta; feodality, feudal system, feudalism.

Jurisdiction

Judge; tribunal; municipality, corporation, bailiwick, shrievalty; lord lieutenant, sheriff, shire reeve, shrieve, constable; selectman; police, police force, the fuzz; constabulary, bumbledom, gendarmerie.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Top     

Modern Translation: BUMBLEDOM

Language Translations for "BUMBLEDOM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

бюрокрация (bureaucracy, red tape). (various references)

   

German

  

Wichtigtuerei (bumptiousness, pomposity, pompousness). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

fontoskodás (buckram, bustling, cockiness, fuss, fussiness, officiousness, pedantry, pragmatism, priggishness, self-importance). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

umbledombay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

burocracia presumida. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

birocratism (bureaucracy), ifose (air, airs). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

бюрократизм (beadledom, departmentalism, official red tape, officialdom, red tape). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

birokratija (bureaucracy). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

formalism (formalism, formality, legalism, punctilio). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

önemsiz memurluk. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

бюрократизм (beadledom, departmentalism, officialdom, officialism, red tape). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Top     

Anagrams: BUMBLEDOM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-b-d-e-l-m-m-o-u"

-2 letters: bumbled, mumbled.

-3 letters: bedumb, blumed, bombed, buboed, bulbed, bumble, bummed, double, lobbed, mobbed, mobled, module, mumble.

-4 letters: blued, blume, bombe, boule, demob, lobed, lubed, model, modem, mould, muled, odeum, oleum, umbel.

-5 letters: bedu, bleb, bled, blob, blub, blue, bode, bold, bole, bomb, bubo, bulb, demo, dole, dome, doum, duel, dumb, leud, lobe, lode, loud.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Top     



INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Anagrams
3. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.