Sc. dial. [Cf. F. barbouiller ‘to jumble, confound, huddle, or mingle ill-fauouredly’ (Cotgr.), and its cognates: cf. esp. Catalan borbollar to perplex, bewilder. But actual connection between these and the Sc. word is not evidenced. Cf. BARBULYE.]
trans. To perplex, confuse, muddle.
1843. Mrs. Carlyle, Lett. (1883), I. 244. His external life fallen into a horribly burbled state.
