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Pabble vs Rabble - What's the difference?

pabble | rabble |

As a verb pabble

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

As a noun rabble is

a mob; a disorderly crowd.

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

    rabble

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A mob; a disorderly crowd.
  • The mass of common people; the lowest class of people.

    • Synonyms

    * riffraff

    Derived terms

    * rabble rouser

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