burble

 
Pronunciation: /ˈbəːb(ə)l/

verb

  • 1 [no object] make a continuous murmuring noise: a stream burbled through the woods
  • speak continuously and at length in an unintelligible or confused way: he burbled on about annuities [with object]: he was burbling inanities
  • 2 (often as noun burbling) Aeronautics (of an airflow) break up into turbulence.

noun

[mass noun]
  • continuous murmuring noise: the steady burble of running water
  • rambling speech: an hour of boring burble

Derivatives

burbler

noun

Origin:

Middle English (in the sense 'to bubble'): imitative. Current senses date from the late 19th century