Burbling

Heck, I didn't know "burbling" was a real word until I noticed my spell checker wasn't underlining it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Visually you can picture this as some kind of burbling pot where the foam that rises brings the violent ones to the surface and the more moderate ones remain at the bottom of the pot and receive whatever misfortunes trickle down from the bomb throwing ones who flourish at the top of the pot. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"The Man From San Sebastian" comes on like a jam between Astor Piazzolla and Vic Flick under Mr. Urata's vocal, while "Contrabanda" is propelled by blaring brass and guest Mauro Refosco's burbling percussion. ❋ Jim Fusilli (2011)

There's a genuine satirical richness to these portrayals; they do go beyond simple impressions of the old school -- you know, Jimmy Cagney saying "you're the guy who shot my sister" and Cary Grant burbling "Judy Judy Judy" and so on. ❋ Tom Shales (2010)

Even the stream seeming to mute its burbling descent as they stared upon one another in mutual loathing. ❋ Alix Rickloff (2011)

And then there's the contraption blinking and burbling in Mr. Subotnick's office studio: a music-making machine with history going back to the 1963 invention of the voltage-controlled modular synthesizer. ❋ Andy Battaglia (2011)

As we walk, I dangle the book over the side of the bridge, and let it drop into the thick burbling brown goop of the river, which will certainly dissolve it before we even get home. ❋ Chris Lynch (2011)

I remember being genuinely stunned by the level of invention at work in Batman Begins, and burbling to Radio 5 Live listeners that it was "far, far smarter than any of us had the right to expect from a movie which cost that much". ❋ Unknown (2011)

And so he lay there, tasting the blood that trickled out the corners of his mouth like a slow burbling spring, convinced that his back was broken. ❋ Jay Kirk (2010)

It's been two weeks and Europe is still burbling about our summit "plan" for future fiscal integration. ❋ Jr. Holman W. Jenkins (2011)

Asked if being surrounded by burbling babies made him feel “broody,” Wills winced. ❋ Christopher Andersen (2011)

I heard friends burbling with unabashed, redole(sc)ent joy at seeing the first Pulp comeback show at Spain's Primavera festival in May (which I was meant to have attended), and then witnessed it myself in London in July - the band absolutely owning the stage, the audience and the venue (it's surely no surprise their 1998 live DVD, also filmed in London, was titled The Park Is Mine) at Wireless. ❋ Charlie Ivens (2011)

Reliance: this is the burbling background monologue of Indian cricket. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Is the entertainment value of a kid sobering up after anesthesia or a baby burbling at random pieces of paper worth the costs of objectifying them for public consumption, however diverting, enlightening or cathartic? ❋ Unknown (2011)

The media was burbling with excited speculation that the race had fundamentally changed and was now hurtling toward the destination that reporters, wherever their personal political sympathies lay, longed for it to reach: the State of Too Close to Call, the City of Dead Heat, the Valley of Sudden Death. ❋ Anonymous (2011)

Mr. Rogen is Hollywood's reigning maestro of burbling raunch. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2011)

It's a rather smug Guardian piece; I winced at Harris's errors ( "Republican" instead of "Nationalist", mispronouncing "Bangor", misspelling Ian Parsley's name) and a lot of it is him burbling to the camera or to the locals rather than actually getting their views. ❋ 50books_poc (2010)

The photo shows my trusty Honda outboard (4 years so far with zero problems) burbling happily away in a garbage pail yesterday while I checked for starting as well as smoothness at various throttle settings. ❋ Unknown (2009)