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)
- 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.
- 1832. J. Wilson in Blackw. Mag. XXXI. 879:
References [edit]
- OED