What does pabble mean?
Pabble means (rare, obsolete) To make the sound like liquid or porridge makes when bubbling under heat, on a stove..
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(rare, obsolete) To make the sound like liquid or porridge makes when bubbling under heat, on a stove..
[…] and also to blear your een, at the same time makin' the room so insufferably hot that water would pabble in a dish […]
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 […]
Use pabble when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pabble means (rare, obsolete) To make the sound like liquid or porridge makes when bubbling under heat, on a stove..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…] and also to blear your een, at the same time makin' the room so insufferably hot that water would pabble in a dish […]
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