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Definition of Burbly
1. Adjective. Uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm. "A novel told in burbly panting tones"
Definition of Burbly
1. Adjective. burbling ¹
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Definition of Burbly
1. burbling [adj -BLIER, -BLIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Burbly
Literary usage of Burbly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1889)
"(7) A rabbit burrow. Dorset. (8) But. Yorksh. BURATO. A kind of woollen cloth.
BURBLE. (1) To bubble. burbly, bubbling, Lydgate's Minor Poems, p. ..."
2. New Letters of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle (1904)
"... all things rising in price; all manner of gamblers getting "fortunes,"
etc., etc.: and by and by there will be a very burbly account to settle indeed ..."
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