Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense burbles, present participle burbling, past tense, past participle burbled
1. verb
If something burbles, it makes a low continuous bubbling sound.
The water burbled over gravel. [VERB preposition]
The river gurgled and burbled. [VERB]
2. verb
If you say that someone is burbling, you mean that they are talking in a confused way.
He burbled something incomprehensible. [VERB noun]
Key burbled about the wonderful people who contribute to tourism. [VERB + about]
He burbles on about freedom. [V + on about]
burble in British English
(ˈbɜːbəl)
verb
1.
to make or utter with a bubbling sound; gurgle
2. (intr; often foll by away or on)
to talk quickly and excitedly
3. (intransitive)
(of the airflow around a body) to become turbulent
noun
4.
a bubbling or gurgling sound
5.
a flow of excited speech
6.
turbulence in the airflow around a body
Derived forms
burbler (ˈburbler)
noun
Word origin
C14: probably of imitative origin; compare Spanish borbollar to bubble, gush, Italian borbugliare
burble in American English
(ˈbɜrbəl)
verb intransitiveWord forms: ˈburbled or ˈburbling
1.
to make a gurgling or bubbling sound
2.
to babble as a child does
noun
3. Aeronautics
the separation and breakup of the streamline flow of air, esp. over the surface of a wing at too great an angle of attack, resulting in a loss of lift and an increase of drag
Word origin
ME burbelen, to bubble; of echoic orig.
Examples of 'burble' in a sentence
burble
They could hear the burble of Godfrey attempting to speak through his absurd teeth.
Fidelis Morgan THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY (2002)
The burble of the river and the occasional shriek of a night bird seemed to intensify rather than disturb the vast wilderness silence.
Tapply, William G FOLLOW THE SHARKS (2002)
He did not want his voice to carry over the soft burble of the current.