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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

I. intransitive verb (burbled; burbling) Etymology: Middle English Date: 14th century 1. to make a bubbling sound 2. babble, prattle • burbler noun II. noun Date: 1898 1. prattle 2. the breaking up of the smooth flow of air about a body (as an airplane wing) • burbly adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v.intr. 1 speak ramblingly; make a murmuring noise. 2 Aeron. (of an air-flow) break up into turbulence. --n. 1 a murmuring noise. 2 rambling speech. Derivatives: burbler n. Etymology: 19th c.: imit.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(burbles, burbling, burbled) 1. If something burbles, it makes a low continuous bubbling sound. The water burbled over gravel... The river gurgled and burbled. VERB: V prep, V 2. If you say that someone is burbling, you mean that they are talking in a confused way. He burbled something incomprehensible... Key burbled about the wonderful people who contribute to tourism... He burbles on about freedom. VERB: V n, V about n, V on about n, also V that, V with quote

Moby Thesaurus

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