What I want to know is if the bumble bee is called that because of the word bumble, or if the word bumble got that meaning because of the bee…ok, so a visit to wiktionary tells me the word bumble came first, then was applied to the bee.
EDIT: Wait, it may be the other way around. bumblebee came from humbul-be and merged with Middle English bombeln humble meaning to buzz. Man, I still don’t really even know.
Very good.