different between babbling vs burble

English

Noun

babbling (countable and uncountable, plural babblings)

1. (uncountable) a stage in child language acquisition, during which an infant appears to be experimenting with uttering sounds of language, but not yet producing any recognizable words
2. (countable, uncountable) sounds produced by infant during the babbling period
3. (countable, uncountable) Idle senseless talk; prattle.
4. (countable, uncountable) A confused murmur, as of a stream.

Translations

Verb

babbling

1. present participle of babble

Anagrams

• blabbing

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??.b?l/
• Rhymes: -??(r)b?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English burblen (“to bubble”), imitative.

Noun

burble (plural burbles)

1. A bubbling, gurgling sound, as of a creek.
2. A gush of rapid speech.
   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 3,

     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.

Verb

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

1. To bubble; to gurgle.
2. To babble; to speak in an excited rush.

   She burbled on, as if I cared to listen.

Derived terms

• burbly

Translations

Etymology 2

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

Noun

burble

1. Trouble; disorder.

Verb

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

1. (transitive) To trouble or confuse.

References

• (etymology 1) American Heritage Dictionary.

Anagrams

• beblur, lubber, rebulb, rubble