burble
from
Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
burble
v.
[from Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky] Like {flame}, but connotes that the
source is truly clueless and ineffectual (mere flamers can be
competent). A term of deep contempt. "There's some guy on the phone
burbling about how he got a DISK FULL error and it's all our comm
software's fault." This is mainstream slang in some parts of England.
from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
burble
[Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"] Like {flame}, but connotes
that the source is truly clueless and ineffectual (mere
flamers can be competent). A term of deep contempt. "There's
some guy on the phone burbling about how he got a DISK FULL
error and it's all our comm software's fault." This is
mainstream slang in some parts of England.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
46 Moby Thesaurus words for "burble":
babble, be stupid, blather, blither, blubber, boil, boil over,
bubble, bubble over, bubble up, chatter, clack, dither, dote,
drivel, drool, effervesce, ferment, fizz, fizzle, gabble, guggle,
gurgle, hiss, lap, maunder, plash, plop, prattle, purl, rattle,
ripple, run on, seethe, simmer, slobber, slosh, sparkle, splash,
swash, swish, trill, wash, work, yak, yammer
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