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the sound water makes when it's too happy to keep quiet
means To make a continuous bubbling or gurgling sound, or to talk on excitedly in a flowing, barely-contained way.
from An echoic word — its sound is its meaning. It surfaced in Middle English, likely imitating the very noise of bubbling water, and sits in a family of liquid-burbly cousins like 'bubble' and 'gurgle.' Lewis Carroll gave it a fresh sparkle in 'Jabberwocky' ('the Jabberwock... came whiffling... and burbled as it came'), though the plain water-talking sense was already centuries old.
- origin
- Lewis Carroll coined it in Jabberwocky, 1871
- double life
- means both bubbling water and incoherent rambling
- car culture
- describes the lumpy idle of exhaust pops
- onomatopoeia
- the word literally sounds like its sound
brook in winnie-the-pooh — the stream where pooh and piglet listen to its cheerful sound in a.a. milne's 1926 stories
burble app — real-time transcription software acquired by microsoft for teams integration in 2023