What's a Babbling Brook?

What's a Babbling Brook?

1A small, fast-running stream. 2Australian, New Zealand slang A cook, especially an army cook, or one who caters for a party or camp of musterers, shearers, etc.; compare "babbler" (now chiefly historical).

Is it babbling or bubbling brook?

The verb burble captures both the movement of the water and the sound it makes as it moves. You could also say that a brook or stream or river babbles or ripples or even trickles. The word burble was first used in the 1300's, and it probably comes from an imitation of the sound a rippling, bubbling brook makes.

How do you use babbling brook in a sentence?

My early life ran quiet beside a babbling brook, and there I sat and fished trout and fried them over an outdoor fire. Then they came out of the woods at a point where a babbling brook ran over some rocks. Always she kept to the depth of the little ravine, through which ran a tiny, babbling brook.

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