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Date: 1300-1400
Language: Old North French
Origin: werbler

warble

 verb
     
Related topics: Music, Birds
war‧ble
1 [intransitive]HBB to sing with a high continuous but quickly changing sound, the way a bird does
2 [intransitive and transitive]APM to sing, especially not very well - used humorously:
Mills warbled a few notes.
—warble noun [countable]
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