bumbledom

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. bureaucracy; mannerisms characteristic of pompous, arrogant or pretentious officials. countable,uncountable
    — With the meekness went a strain of mild obstinacy exquisitely calculated to infuriate the self-important bumbledom of that time, as when the Friends refused to remove their hats before the Court that was to try them.

词形变化

bumbledoms plural

词源

From Mr. Bumble, a character in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, + -dom.
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