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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024war•ble1 /ˈwɔrbəl/USA pronunciation v., -bled, -bling, n. v. - Music and Danceto sing or whistle with trills or melodies that vary quickly: [no object]to warble happily.[~ + object]to warble a tune.
n. [countable] - Music and Dancea warbled song or trill.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024war•ble1 (wôr′bəl),USA pronunciation v., -bled, -bling, n. v.i. - Music and Danceto sing or whistle with trills, quavers, or melodic embellishments:The canary warbled most of the day.
- to yodel.
- (of electronic equipment) to produce a continuous sound varying regularly in pitch and frequency.
v.t. - Music and Danceto sing (an aria or other selection) with trills, quavers, or melodious turns.
- to express or celebrate in or as if in song;
carol. n. - Music and Dancea warbled song or succession of melodic trills, quavers, etc.
- the act of warbling.
- Gmc; compare Old High German werbel something that turns, equivalent. to werb- (cognate with Old English hweorf- in hweorfan to turn) + -el noun, nominal suffix
- Old North French
- Middle English werble a tune 1300–50
war•ble2 (wôr′bəl),USA pronunciation n. [Vet. Pathol.]- Veterinary Diseasesa small, hard tumor on a horse's back, produced by the galling of the saddle.
- Veterinary Diseasesa lump in the skin of an animal's back, containing the larva of a warble fly.
- 1575–85; origin, originally uncertain; compare obsolete Swedish varbulde boil
war′bled, adj. Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: warble /ˈwɔːbəl/ vb - to sing (words, songs, etc) with trills, runs, and other embellishments
- (transitive) to utter in a song
n - the act or an instance of warbling
Etymology: 14th Century: via Old French werbler from Germanic; compare Frankish hwirbilōn (unattested), Old High German wirbil whirlwind; see whirl warble /ˈwɔːbəl/ n - a small lumpy abscess under the skin of cattle caused by infestation with larvae of the warble fly
- a hard tumorous lump of tissue on a horse's back, caused by prolonged friction of a saddle
Etymology: 16th Century: of uncertain origin |