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burble

(v): flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
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11 months ago akmed13 said: was, I think, a made up word, but is now real

I believe first in:

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

But now has meaning:

burble :
The area of turbulence behind an object (wash, wake, or backwash) going through the air, whether a person in freefall or a canopy / airfoil in flight. -- http://www.combatmagazine.ws/S4/MILTERMS/PARATERM.HTM

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