What came first. The verb "to bumble" or the insect "bumblebee" [closed]
Solution 1:
According to Google's Ngram, "bumble" came way before "bumblebee."
Also, here is an article about the origins of the noun bumblebee by O’Conner and Kellerman at Grammarphobia which states that bumble originally only meant "a humming sound"/"to make a humming sound," and later gained the meaning to "move, act, or fly in an awkward way". Once it gained the second meaning, it was essentially inevitable for "bumblebee" to be invented.