brabbled

Verb

brabble (third-person singular simple present brabbles, present participle brabbling, simple past and past participle brabbled)

1. (dated) To make clamorous noises; to act noisily.
   • Then next is the Clinke, a gaol or prison for the trespassers in those parts; namely, in old time, for such as should brabble, frey, or break the peace on the said bank, or in the brothel houses, they were by the inhabitants thereabout apprehended and committed to this gaol, where they were...1598, John Stow, Survey of London, London: J.M. Dent, published 1912, page 362
2. To babble (of a stream or other watercourse).
   • Farther on, when they came to a miniature glen between the semblance of two hills, down which, in mockery of a torrent, brabbled a slim brown stream, MacLean stood still […]1902, Mary Johnston, chapter 9, in Audrey, New York: Grosset and Dunlap, page 121

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