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Burbled
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'''Burbled''' is a word best known from its use in [[Lewis Carroll]]'s poem ''[[Jabberwocky]]'' and is often supposed to have been invented by him. Carroll seems to have thought so himself. According to Alexander L. Taylor, in a letter to a child-friend Carroll wrote that

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More recently, '''burble''' has been commonly adopted as an [[onomatopoeia]] for the exhaust note of a [[V8]] [[internal-combustion engine|engine]].

In Spanish "borbollar" means to bubble or gush while the Italian word is "borbugliare". both obvious onomatopoeia.

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