pabble

present singular third person pabbles · participle present pabbling · participle past pabbled · past pabbled

1. obsoleterareTo 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.

   1832, “Christopher at the Lakes”, in Blackwood's Magazine, volume 31, page 879

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   […] 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

   We hear them pabbling in the pan, as the landlady turns them lightly over with her knife in the buttered meal […]

   1834, “Stephen Oliver on Angling”, in Blackwood's Magazine, volume 35, page 789