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pabble

pabble verb: to make the sound like liquid or porridge makes when bubbling under heat, on a stove.

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete, rare) 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 […]1827, “Noctes Ambrosianae”, in Blackwood's Magazine, volume 21, page 479
    • The hissing, and the fizzing, and the pabbling of the great pan in which the basted trouts are writhing.1832, “Christopher at the Lakes”, in Blackwood's Magazine, volume 31, page 879

Forms of pabble

third-person singular presentpabbles
present participlepabbling
past participlepabbled
pastpabbled

Questions about pabble

What does pabble mean?
Pabble means to make the sound like liquid or porridge makes when bubbling under heat, on a stove.
What part of speech is pabble?
Pabble is a verb.
What is the past tense of pabble?
The past tense of pabble is pabbled.

Words near pabble in the dictionary

  1. paauw
  2. paauws
  3. PAB
  4. PABA
  5. Pabanog
  6. pabble
  7. pabbled
  8. pabbles
  9. pabbling
  10. pabebe wave
  11. Pabianice

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