Sc. dial. [see BURBLE v.2] ‘Trouble, perplexity, disorder’ (Jam.).

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1812.  Case, Moffat, 45 (Jam.). He always made burbles, by which the deponent understood trouble.

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1836.  Carlyle, in Froude, Life (1885), I. 78. Much that was a burble will begin to unravel itself.

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