burble

[bur-buh l] /ˈbɜr bəl/

verb (used without object), burbled, burbling.

to make a bubbling sound; bubble.

to speak in an excited manner; babble.

noun

a bubbling or gentle flow.

an excited flow of speech.

Aeronautics. the breakdown of smooth airflow around a wing at a high angle of attack.

Origin

1275-1325; Middle English; perhaps variant of bubble

Related forms

burbler, noun

burbly, adverb

Examples from the web for burble

But long before that first burble or coo, babies are learning the elements of language.
The clear streams burble over pebbles and through meadows.
She would hum and sing and even burble in a contented way.
We were sitting in a bucolic place: a narrow, swiftly moving stream nearby gave a gentle burble while birds tweeted above us.
She puts bath salts in the sisters' sugar bowls so that their teacups burble bubbles when they daintily sugar their tea.

British Dictionary definitions for burble

burble

/ˈbɜːbəl/

verb

to make or utter with a bubbling sound; gurgle

(intransitive; often foll by away or on) to talk quickly and excitedly

(intransitive) (of the airflow around a body) to become turbulent

noun

a bubbling or gurgling sound

a flow of excited speech

turbulence in the airflow around a body

Derived Forms

burbler, noun

Word Origin

C14: probably of imitative origin; compare Spanish borbollar to bubble, gush, Italian borbugliare

Word Origin and History for burble

"make a bubbling sound," c.1300, imitative. Related: Burbled; burbling.

burble in Technology

[Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"] Like flame, but connotes that the source is truly clueless and ineffectual (mere flamers can be competent). A term of deep contempt. "There's some guy on the phone burbling about how he got a DISK FULL error and it's all our comm software's fault." This is mainstream slang in some parts of England.
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