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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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:If you take the three verbs '<u>b</u>leat,' 'm<u>ur</u>mur,' and 'war<u>ble</u>,' and select the bits I have underlined, it certainly ''makes'' 'burble,' although I am afraid I can't distinctly remember having made it in that way.
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However, Collins English Dictionary suggests that it was used in Fourteenth Century English, and the American Heritage Dictionary cites derivation from Middle English ''burblen,'' to bubble (and does not mention Carroll).
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The word is used in the sentence "and ''burbled'' as it came," meaning bubbled or babbled.
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Often used in the phrase "Burbled On" meaning the mindless repitition of some point long after the speaker has lost his/her audience.   The question  "What are you burbling on about?" sometimes serves as a semi-tactful suggestion that it is time for a person to stop talking.
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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]].
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In Spanish "borbollar" means to bubble or gush while the Italian word is "borbugliare". both obvious onamatopoeia.
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