warble
verb/ˈwɔːbl/
/ˈwɔːrbl/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they warble | /ˈwɔːbl/ /ˈwɔːrbl/ |
| he / she / it warbles | /ˈwɔːblz/ /ˈwɔːrblz/ |
| past simple warbled | /ˈwɔːbld/ /ˈwɔːrbld/ |
| past participle warbled | /ˈwɔːbld/ /ˈwɔːrbld/ |
| -ing form warbling | /ˈwɔːblɪŋ/ /ˈwɔːrblɪŋ/ |
- [transitive, intransitive] warble (something) | + speech (humorous) to sing, especially in a high voice that is not very steady
- He warbled his way through the song.
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- [intransitive, transitive] warble (something) (of a bird) to sing with rapidly changing notes
Word Originlate Middle English (as a noun in the sense ‘melody’): from Old Northern French werble (noun), werbler (verb), of Germanic origin; related to whirl.
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