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語源 1

From 中期英語 burblen (“to bubble”), imitative.

名詞

burble (plural burbles)

1. A bubbling, gurgling sound, as of a creek.
   • 1988, Bruce Chatwin, Utz, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN; republished London: Vintage Books, 2005, →ISBN, page 50:

     Marta's gander was a magnificent snow-white bird: the object of terror to foxes, children and dogs. She had reared him as a gosling; and whenever he approached, he would let fly a low contented burble and sidle his neck around her thighs.

2. A gush of rapid speech.
   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 3, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:

     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.

動詞

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

1. (intransitive) To bubble; to gurgle.
   • 1997 June, Field & Stream (volume 102, number 2, page 138)

     The stream burbled as it flowed past. Its slightly musty odor smelled of trout.

2. To babble; to speak in an excited rush.

   She burbled on, as if I cared to listen.

   • 1980 August 16, Andrea Loewenstein, “Random Lust”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 5, page 19:

     "No, Jo, it wasn't one bit crowded, there was room enought for everyone," she burbled on. "And we were there, and all these other wymeen too, of all shapes, sizes, and colors..."

   • 1995 December 21, Tony Chamberlain, “We all love snow games: Some take time to play; others seize chance to panic”, in The Boston Globe, volume 248, number 174, Boston, Mass., page 91:

     “No way this one’s going to miss us this time,” burbles one bebooted doomsdayer to another.

派生語

• burbler
• burbly

語源 2

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

名詞

burble

1. Trouble; disorder.

動詞

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

1. (transitive) To trouble or confuse.

参照

• (etymology 1) American Heritage Dictionary.

アナグラム

• beblur, lubber, rebulb, rubble