different between cockchafer vs dumbledore

English

Etymology

From cock (“male bird”) +? chafer (“beetle”). The Oxford English Dictionary speculates that the name may relate to a resemblance of antennae to coxcomb, or to the beetle’s size. Compare French hanneton (“cockchafer”), ultimately from Frankish *hano (“rooster”). Attested from the late seventeenth century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?k?t?e?f?(?)/

Noun

cockchafer (plural cockchafers)

1. Any of the large European beetles from the genus Melolontha that are destructive to vegetation.
2. Any of various other similar beetles, such as of the genera Acrossidius, Cyphochilus, Rhopaea, etc.

Synonyms

• May bug, doodlebug

Hyponyms

• black-headed pasture cockchafer, Acrossidius tasmaniae
• brown cockchafer, Rhopaea magnicornis
• common cockchafer, Melolontha melolontha
• forest cockchafer, Melolontha hippocastani
• large cockchafer, Melolontha pectoralis
• large white cockchafer, Cyphochilus apicalis

Translations

References

English

Alternative forms

• dumble-dor
• drumbledore
• dumbledor

Etymology

Compound of dumble (similar to bumble) +? dor (“a buzzing flying insect”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?m.b?l.d??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?d?m.b?l.d???/

Noun

dumbledore (plural dumbledores)

1. (dialectal) A bumblebee.
   • 1875 Charlotte M Yonge, The Daisy Chain:

     Those slopes of fresh turf, embroidered with every minute blossom of the moor — thyme, birdsfoot, eyebright, and dwarf purple thistle, buzzed and hummed over by busy, black-tailed, yellow-banded dumbledores.

   • 1899 Thomas Hardy, An August Midnight:

     A shaded lamp and a waving blind, / And the beat of a clock from a distant floor: / On this scene enter – winged, horned, and spined – / A longlegs, a moth, and a dumbledore —

   • 1970 May 21, Evening Telegram, page 3:

     Now and then a dumbledore or ‘busy bee’ as they are called by some, propelled itself across our path, they being extremely large and heavy this year.

   • 1987 Seán Virgo, Selakhi, Exile Editions, Ltd., page 20:

     A dumbledore, lured from the plantation, lies on its back, leaping and churning upon Seth’s bright pages.

2. (dialectal) A beetle, typically a cockchafer or dung beetle.
   • 1964 Transactions of the American Philological Association, American Philological Association, Ginn & Co., page 267:

     others may need to be informd that a blastnashun straddlebob is a dumbledore, that is to say, a polyonymous lamellicorn coleopter, cald also a dorbeetle, a dorbug, a maybeetle, a maybug, a cockchafer, a Melolontha vulgaris.

3. (dialectal) A dandelion.
   • 1975 Peter J. Scott, Edible Fruits and Herbs of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Memorial University Oxen Pond Botanical Park, page 39:

     The Dandelion has a number of common names in Newfoundland. These include Dumbledore, Faceclock, and Piss-a-beds.

4. (slang) A blundering person.
   • 1872 Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree, chapter 4:

     “Miserable dumbledores!” / “Right, William, and so they be—miserable dumbledores!” said the choir with unanimity.

Translations

See also

• Dumbledorian