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Pabble vs Pebble - What's the difference?

pabble | pebble |

As verbs the difference between pabble and pebble

is that pabble is to make the sound like liquid or porridge makes when bubbling under heat, on a stove while pebble is to pave with pebbles.

As a noun pebble is

a small stone, especially one rounded by the action of water.

pabble

English

Verb

  • To make the sound like liquid or porridge makes when bubbling under heat, on a stove.
  • *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.

    • References

    *OED

    pebble

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small stone, especially one rounded by the action of water.
  • * Shakespeare
    • the pebbles on the hungry beach
  • * Milton
    • children gathering pebbles on the shore
  • (geology) A particle from 4 to 64 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
  • (curling) A small droplet of water intentionally sprayed on the ice that cause irregularities on the surface.
  • Transparent and colourless rock crystal.
    • Brazilian pebble

    Verb

  • To pave with pebbles.
  • (curling) To deposit water droplets on the ice. e.g. to pebble the ice between games.