burble

English

From Middle English burblen (“to bubble”), imitative.

burble (plural burbles)

A bubbling, gurgling sound, as of a creek.
- 1988, Bruce Chatwin, Utz, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN; republished London: Vintage Books, 2005, →ISBN, page 50:
  Marta's gander was a magnificent snow-white bird: the object of terror to foxes, children and dogs. She had reared him as a gosling; and whenever he approached, he would let fly a low contented burble and sidle his neck around her thighs.
A gush of rapid speech.
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 3, in The Line of Beauty, New York: Bloomsbury, OCLC 1036692193:
  He could hear the music in the distance, and the burble and laughter from the library, and a high ringing in his own ears.
The turbulent boundary layer about a moving streamlined body.

sound of water

speech

burble (third-person singular simple present burbles, present participle burbling, simple past and past participle burbled)

To bubble; to gurgle.
To babble; to speak in an excited rush.
She burbled on, as if I cared to listen.

to bubble, to gurgle

speak in an incoherent rush

Scottish; probably connected Old French barbouiller (“to confound”).

burble

burble (third-person singular simple present burbles, present participle burbling, simple past and past participle burbled)

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