The DICT Development Group
5 definitions found
for burble
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
burble \burble\ v.
to to make a burbling sound; -- used of water, especially
brooks.
Syn: ripple, babble, guggle, bubble, gurgle.
[WordNet 1.5] burbling
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
burble
v 1: flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise;
"babbling brooks" [syn: ripple, babble, guggle,
burble, bubble, gurgle]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
46 Moby Thesaurus words for "burble":
babble, be stupid, blather, blither, blubber, boil, boil over,
bubble, bubble over, bubble up, chatter, clack, dither, dote,
drivel, drool, effervesce, ferment, fizz, fizzle, gabble, guggle,
gurgle, hiss, lap, maunder, plash, plop, prattle, purl, rattle,
ripple, run on, seethe, simmer, slobber, slosh, sparkle, splash,
swash, swish, trill, wash, work, yak, yammer
From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) :
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.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018) :
burble
[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.
[{Jargon File]
Contact=webmaster@dict.org Specification=RFC 2229