Pabble
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Pabble is a verb meaning (rare, obsolete) To make the sound like liquid or porridge makes when bubbling under heat, on a stove.
Meaning
(rare, obsolete) To make the sound like liquid or porridge makes when bubbling under heat, on a stove.
Example Sentences
The hissing, and the fizzing, and the pabbling of the great pan in which the basted trouts are writhing.
We hear them pabbling in the pan, as the landlady turns them lightly over with her knife in the buttered meal […]
[…] and also to blear your een, at the same time makin' the room so insufferably hot that water would pabble in a dish […]
Word Forms
- pabbles
- pabbling
- pabbled
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include babble, brabble, splop, burble, bibble, plapper.
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