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Definition of Burbles
1. burble [v] - See also: burble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Burbles
Literary usage of Burbles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archeological Society by James Simpson, Richard Saul Ferguson, William Gershom Collingwood (1889)
"The word burbles I do not understand ; nor have I ever met with it till recently,
save in " Alice in Wonderland," where it is stated of the ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"Bunting, Bunty. Miserably mean and shabby. burbles. Small tingling pimples, such
as are caused by the stinging of nettles or of some minute insects. ..."
3. The Observer: Being a Collection of Moral, Literary and Familiar Essays by Richard Cumberland (1817)
"... out with ihe pound of man's fash—— burbles and buttons! Spectacles! bawls out
a forth —and so on through the whole gallery, till I am forced to retire ..."
4. Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"King jaws him in Common- room about not keepin' us up to the mark, and Macrea
burbles about ..."
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