May 15, 2003

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.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:55 AM

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