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Burbled
'''Burbled''' is a word best known from its use in [[Lewis Carroll]]'s nonsense poem ''[[Jabberwocky]]'' and is often supposed to have been invented by him.  In the poem, the word is used in the sentence "and ''burbled'' as it came".  Carroll seems to have thought that he had invented the word.  According to [[Alexander L. Taylor]], in a letter to a child-friend Carroll wrote:

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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 language|Spanish]] "borbollar" means to bubble or gush while the [[Ita
nlian language|Italian]] word is "borbugliare".  Both words are obvious onomatopoeia.

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