Pabble

Pabble

pabble - verb

This is the sound that liquid makes when bubbling under heat. Pabbling is the sound porridge makes while bubbling on the stove.

other articles include the OED:- To make a sound like that of boiling liquid.

1832 J. Wilson in Blackw. Mag. XXXI. 879 The hissing, and the fizzing, and the pabbling of the great pan in which the basted trouts are writhing. 1834 I Ibid. XXXV. 789 We hear them pabbling in the pan.


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  • pabble — verb To make the sound like liquid or porridge makes when bubbling under heat, on a stove. The hissing, and the fizzing, and the pabbling of the great pan in which the basted trouts are writhing …   Wiktionary

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