burble

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bur·ble / ˈbərbəl/ • v. [intr.] make a continuous murmuring noise: the wind burbled at his ear. ∎  speak in an unintelligible or silly way, typically at unnecessary length: he burbled on about annuities.• n. continuous murmuring noise.

burble

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burble †form bubbles, flow with bubbling sound XIV; (revived or formed afresh by Kipling) talk with a continuous murmur XIX. of imit. orig.; there are similar and synon. forms in Rom., e.g. Sp. borbollar bubble, gush, barbullar talk loud and fast, It. borbugliare.

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