Meaning

4 senses
  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.

  4. Trouble; disorder.

Translations

2 languages

Origin

From Middle English burblen (“to bubble”), imitative. Scottish; probably connected Old Fr

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

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

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Forms

plural: burbles
Singularburble
Pluralburbles

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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