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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A gurgling or bubbling sound, as of running water.
  2. n. A rapid, excited flow of speech.
  3. n. A separation in the boundary layer of fluid about a moving streamlined body, such as the wing of an airplane, causing a breakdown in the smooth flow of fluid and resulting in turbulence.
  4. v. To bubble; gurgle.
  5. v. To speak quickly and excitedly; gush.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To bubble; gush.
  2. To welter.
  3. n. A bubble.
  4. n. A small pimple.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A bubbling, gurgling sound, as of a creek.
  2. n. A gush of rapid speech.
  3. n. The turbulent boundary layer about a moving streamlined body.
  4. v. To bubble; to gurgle.
  5. v. To babble; To speak in an excited rush.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. to to make a burbling sound; -- used of water, especially brooks.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English burblen (to bubble). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English burblen, to bubble. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Thane's burble is short on something: on whom are we looking to get revenge?”

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  • “Sharon Mansur and duo Sara Pearson and Patrik Widrig must be exciting and fun to work with because these choreographers burble with ideas and warmly embrace the notion of collaborating with their dancers.”

    The Washington Post: U-Md. faculty attempt to bring high-concept dance down to earth

  • “Just a bit different from the fandom panel where the people up front get to burble about whatever they like, and the anarchic culture of fandom is if anything rather prejudiced against structured presentations.”

    Elizabeth I and Ireland

  • “I realize that it might be fun for cosmopolitan hipsters to burble about the (at this stage, rather invisible) patriarchy, and more nonsense about “autonomy” and “freedom”, but perhaps you could have a more productive conversation if you would respond to what I actually said.”

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  • “Model Daisy Lowe is wheeled into the press day – a meter running behind her eyes – to burble about how profound a concept music and smelling good is to her existence.”

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  • “The painful burble in my lungs spoke of something worse happening.”

    Simon & Schuster: Brush of Darkness

  • “Over the burble of the stream, the whirring of insects, and the night calls of birds, we could hear the sounds of the Kristiano camp; clanking metal, chopping, and calls mixed with the mingled voices of several Kristianos who were singing, the melody eerie and foreign.”

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  • “Regards, surely there must be some protest or demo going on somewhere so you can find more evildoers to burble on about without intelligence. on April 15, 2009 at 7: 35 pm | Reply Ranter”

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  • “And some of that work is bound to be new and fresh and exciting, and word will hopefully burble up to me.”

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  • dailyword This word was used in the movie "Bedknobs And Broomsticks." Jun 12, 2012

  • benny4words burble (plural burbles)

    1. A bubbling, gurgling sound, as of a creek.
    2. A gush of rapid speech.
    3. The turbulent boundary layer about a moving streamlined body.
    Feb 5, 2009

  • akmed13 I believe first in:

    And, as in uffish thought he stood,
    The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
    Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
    And burbled as it came!

    But now has meaning:

    burble :
    The area of turbulence behind an object (wash, wake, or backwash) going through the air, whether a person in freefall or a canopy / airfoil in flight. -- http://www.combatmagazine.ws/S4/MILTERMS/PARATERM.HTM

    Sep 20, 2007

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