different between burble vs blabber

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English blaberen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?blæb.?(?)/
• Rhymes: -æb?(?)

Verb

blabber (third-person singular simple present blabbers, present participle blabbering, simple past and past participle blabbered)

1. To blather; to talk foolishly or incoherently.
   • 2014, Richard Szweda, Silenius' Gift

     He blabbered away about how he knew where some treasure was hidden and he would tell us if only we would swear to save his life.

2. To blab; to reveal a secret.
3. (Britain, obsolete) To stick out one's tongue.

Synonyms

• (to talk foolishly): See also Thesaurus:prattle
• (to let out a secret): See also Thesaurus:rat out

Translations

Noun

blabber (plural blabbers)

1. A person who blabs; a tattler; a telltale.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:gossiper

Related terms

• blab
• blabbermouth

Translations

Anagrams

• babbler, brabble