burble

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɜɹ.bəl/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)bəl

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From Middle English burblen (“to bubble”)

burble (plural burbles)

1. A bubbling, gurgling sound, as of a creek.
2. A gush of rapid speech.
   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 3,

     He could hear the music in the distance, and the burble and laughter from the library, and a high ringing in his own ears.

3. The turbulent boundary layer about a moving streamlined body.

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

1. To bubble; to gurgle.
2. To babble; to speak in an excited rush.

   She burbled on, as if I cared to listen.

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

burble

1. Trouble; disorder.

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

1. (transitive) To trouble or confuse.

• (etymology 1) American Heritage Dictionary.

• beblur, lubber, rebulb, rubble