English Dictionary: burble | by the DICT Development Group |
3 results for burble | |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
burble v. [from Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"] Like {flame}, but connotes that the source is truly clueless and ineffectual (mere flamers can be competent). A term of deep contempt. "There's some guy on the phone burbling about how he got a DISK FULL error and it's all our comm software's fault." This is mainstream slang in some parts of England. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
burble [Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky"] Like {flame}, but connotes that the source is truly clueless and ineffectual (mere flamers can be competent). A term of deep contempt. "There's some guy on the phone burbling about how he got a DISK FULL error and it's all our comm software's fault." This is mainstream slang in some parts of England. [{Jargon File}] |