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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : wawr-buh l |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈwɔr bəl |
Définition of warbled
Origin :- c.1300, from Old North French werbler "to sing with trills and quavers," from Frankish *werbilon (cf. Old High German wirbil "whirlwind," German Wirbel "whirl, whirlpool, tuning peg, vertebra," Middle Dutch wervelen "to turn, whirl"); see whirl. The noun meaning "tune, melody" is recorded from c.1300. Related: Warbled; warbling.
- verb sing
- verb trill
- A robin with full throat perched on the window-ledge and warbled cheerily.
- Extract from : « A Son of Hagar » by Sir Hall Caine
- For where Moore warbled to the ladies, Clifton sang to the people.
- Extract from : « A Boswell of Baghdad » by E. V. Lucas
- A yellow-hammer, with cap of gold, warbled his sweet, common little song.
- Extract from : « Days Off » by Henry Van Dyke
- Fomishka warbled out and waited for Snandulia to play the trill.
- Extract from : « Virgin Soil » by Ivan S. Turgenev
- So he skipped along and warbled a songIn his own triumphulant way.
- Extract from : « The Book of Humorous Verse » by Various
- I knew not how to love him till he warbled from your tongue.
- Extract from : « Semiramis and Other Plays » by Olive Tilford Dargan
- A fragment of a Spanish gipsy song it warbled: Luke knew it well.
- Extract from : « Rookwood » by William Harrison Ainsworth
- A lady sailed on to the platform and warbled something of Schumann's.
- Extract from : « The Quaint Companions » by Leonard Merrick
- Meanwhile the little artless Rosey warbled on her pretty ditties.
- Extract from : « The Newcomes » by William Makepeace Thackeray
- He flew down and warbled the sweetest song Susan ever heard.
- Extract from : « Pictures and Stories » by Unknown
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