Pabble vs Mabble - What's the difference?
pabble | mabble |
To make the sound like liquid or porridge makes when bubbling under heat, on a stove.
*1832. J. Wilson in Blackw. Mag. XXXI. 879:
*1834. I Ibid. XXXV. 789:
*:We hear them pabbling in the pan.
As verbs the difference between pabble and mabble
is that pabble is to make the sound like liquid or porridge makes when bubbling under heat, on a stove while mabble is to wrap up.pabble
English
Verb
- The hissing, and the fizzing, and the pabbling of the great pan in which the basted trouts are writhing.