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BURBLE
ripple, babble, guggle, burble, bubble, gurgle
(verb) flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise; “babbling brooks”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
burble (plural burbles)
A bubbling, gurgling sound, as of a creek.
A gush of rapid speech.
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)
To bubble; to gurgle.
To babble; to speak in an excited rush.
Etymology 2
Noun
burble
Trouble; disorder.
Verb
burble (third-person singular simple present burbles, present participle burbling, simple past and past participle burbled)
(transitive) To trouble or confuse.
Anagrams
• beblur, lubber, rebulb, rubble
Source: Wiktionary
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(adjective) being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north; “my left hand”; “left center field”; “the left bank of a river is bank on your left side when you are facing downstream”
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