Crossword clues for burble
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
burble \burble\ v. to to make a burbling sound; -- used of water, especially brooks.
Syn: ripple, babble, guggle, bubble, gurgle.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"make a bubbling sound," c.1300, imitative. Related: Burbled; burbling.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A bubbling, gurgling sound, as of a creek. 2 A gush of rapid speech. 3 The turbulent boundary layer about a moving streamlined body. vb. 1 To bubble; to gurgle. 2 To babble; to speak in an excited rush.
WordNet
Usage examples of "burble".
After he had gone, Shadow on the Frost began to shake, and to emit the familiar burble of bubbles in a metal bucket.
There was a screaming in the air, and an arching trail of smoke from the north, where the burble of small-arms fire continued.
An attendant carried infant Hippolyte, and the baby crowed and burbled as Hugh smiled at her and tickled her under her fat chin.
In any event his fingers danced around his hands like agitated medusae and the translator chirped and whined and burbled in an increasing tempo with fewer and fewer intelligible words.
Dodds clacking keyboard sounded more natural than the muffled burbling of the funnel or the squeals and creaks of the coaster.
A hundred yards off, the engine noise faded to a burbling and the bows slid deeper into the water.
The weather was hot and dry, there wasnt a midge in sight, your mother was wearing a white linen dress, I still had all my hair, my firstborn child was burbling on my back and we were about to go down to the loch and eat strawberries and drink champagne .
Then Xyon made a burbling noise that seemed to demand her attention, and she looked back down at him.
She saw him, grinned and waved, the mellow burbling music that had graced his life for the past five millennia.
Rubahy made a strange, burbling noise, like bubbles rising in a very deep metal bucket, which Jak remembered from school was supposed to be the sound of laughter.
Its burbling stream, fresh from the Huatanay, might at least be cleaner than most European water supplies of the time, but he had arranged to have some chicha poured about them when they were dumped.
Lieutenant Isaac Marmaduke Elton, she accepts the cant of the feathers and the iron meeting holily when the holy words have been burbled.
On the other side of the burbling water, she saw Kadin talking to a young woman with long, dark hair flowing to her waist.
In the center of the square, a large fountain with the mythological creatures of Romaghin religion pouring water from pitchers over the heads of marble nymphets burbled gaily.
The Lancashire countryside gleamed green all around him, the small river Wyre burbled its way toward the Irish Sea.