pabble

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English [edit]

Verb [edit]

pabble (third-person singular simple present pabbles, present participle pabbling, simple past and past participle pabbled)

  1. To make the sound like liquid or porridge makes when bubbling under heat, on a stove.
    • 1832. J. Wilson in Blackw. Mag. XXXI. 879:
      The hissing, and the fizzing, and the pabbling of the great pan in which the basted trouts are writhing.
    • 1834. I Ibid. XXXV. 789:
      We hear them pabbling in the pan.

References [edit]

  • OED