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Pabble vs Pubble - What's the difference?

pabble | pubble |

As a verb pabble

is to make the sound like liquid or porridge makes when bubbling under heat, on a stove.

As an adjective pubble is

puffed out; pudgy; fat.

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

    pubble

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) puffed out; pudgy; fat
    • Thou shalt me fynde fat and well fed, / As pubble as may be. — Drant.
    (Webster 1913)