burbling
bəl verb (used without object)
1.
to make a bubbling sound; bubble.
2.
to speak in an excited manner; babble.
noun
3.
a bubbling or gentle flow.
4.
an excited flow of speech.
5.
Aeronautics. the breakdown of smooth airflow around a wing at a high angle of attack.
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bur·bler, noun
bur·bly, adverb
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burble (ˈbɜːbəl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to make or utter with a bubbling sound; gurgle |
| 2. | (intr |
| 3. | (intr) (of the airflow around a body) to become turbulent |
| —n | |
| 4. | a bubbling or gurgling sound |
| 5. | a flow of excited speech |
| 6. | turbulence in the airflow around a body |
| [C14: probably of imitative origin; compare Spanish borbollar to bubble, gush, Italian borbugliare] | |
| 'burbler | |
| —n | |
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burble
"to make a bubbling sound," c.1300, onomatopoeic.
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burble
v. [from 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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