burble

5 definitions found

burble - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  burble \burble\ v.
     to to make a burbling sound; -- used of water, especially
     brooks.
  
     Syn: ripple, babble, guggle, bubble, gurgle.
          [WordNet 1.5] burbling

burble - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  burble
      v 1: flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise;
           "babbling brooks" [syn: ripple, babble, guggle,
           burble, bubble, gurgle]

burble - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  burble
  
     [Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"] Like flame, but connotes
     that the source is truly clueless and ineffectual (mere
     flamers can be competent).  A term of deep contempt.  "There's
     some guy on the phone burbling about how he got a DISK FULL
     error and it's all our comm software's fault."  This is
     mainstream slang in some parts of England.
  
     [Jargon File]
  

burble - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  burble
   v.
  
     [from Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky] Like flame, but connotes that
  the
     source is truly clueless and ineffectual (mere flamers can be
     competent). A term of deep contempt. "There's some guy on the phone
     burbling about how he got a DISK FULL error and it's all our comm
     software's fault." This is mainstream slang in some parts of England.
  

burble - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  46 Moby Thesaurus words for "burble":
     babble, be stupid, blather, blither, blubber, boil, boil over,
     bubble, bubble over, bubble up, chatter, clack, dither, dote,
     drivel, drool, effervesce, ferment, fizz, fizzle, gabble, guggle,
     gurgle, hiss, lap, maunder, plash, plop, prattle, purl, rattle,
     ripple, run on, seethe, simmer, slobber, slosh, sparkle, splash,
     swash, swish, trill, wash, work, yak, yammer