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2014-04-26 14:52:28 +00:00
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.