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Friday, October 23, 2015

Word of the Day

burble
\BUR-buh l\

verb
1. to speak in an excited manner; babble.
2. to make a bubbling sound; bubble.

Quotes
He didn't tell us much, but he burbled with a certain eccentric charm.
-- Gyles Brandreth, Breaking the Code: Westminster Diaries, 1999

Origin
Burble is thought to be onomatopoeic in origin, expessing the sound of bubbles or bubbling. It entered English in the early 1300s.

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