{"id":22338,"date":"2022-07-14T12:08:26","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T12:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22338"},"modified":"2022-07-14T12:08:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T12:08:28","slug":"wurbling-wurblers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22338","title":{"rendered":"Wurbling Wurblers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wurble<\/strong> is a wonderful word that I learnt today. What do you think it means?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>to warble words in a waffly kind of way<\/li>\n<li>to wriggle like a worm<\/li>\n<li>to talk or sing with water in your mouth<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/10413717@N08\/6935317800\/in\/photolist-byRjmQ-HsTz8-E2F3x-8aZbzL-5WKM6q-hYPt3T-jAtufv-8y9JKU-2HFJSz-81cPxm-coRRLf-jAttr6-NEYXLN-NgJnAy-2jsm538-2jsqabf-7WGt8k-2jsm59f-2jsoQsQ-2jsm557-2jsqa4B-2jsoQnE-2jsqadj-NJcPcP-NxTVFJ-MLdaKg-NEYRYf-NgJhWo-MLdcyX-NxTTHL-NEYSL7-5KxXnr-cczYn-4RWiRd-8a4Fbg-24zoAs-2jsqa6L-2jsqadQ-2jsoQxK-2jsm5gz-pcuBM-rwQ9f-72CwHg-NfQE77-2N34kG-XpfCkR-68Cb6D-WnUX2e-XpfEQk-hYPaxT\" title=\"Annelid\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7071\/6935317800_3dfdb99d2c_z.jpg\" alt=\"Annelid\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<em>A wurble wurbling<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wurble<\/strong> [w\u028crbl] is a Scots words that means:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n1. To move forward in a twisting, sinuous manner like a worm, to wriggle, crawl; to walk with a knock-kneed gait.<br \/>\n2. To work hard, esp. on some finicky tedious job, to strive, struggle, contend with difficulties.<br \/>\n3. To join two threads by twisting and rubbing the ends together; to patch up a quarrel [<a href=\"https:\/\/dsl.ac.uk\/entry\/snd\/wurble\">source<\/a>].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wurble is also written <strong>warble<\/strong> or <strong>wirble<\/strong>. Related words are <strong>wurbler<\/strong> (worm), and <strong>wurdle<\/strong>, which means \u201cto work hard with little prospect of success\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/dsl.ac.uk\/entry\/snd\/wurdle\">source<\/a>]. As far as I know, the word game, <a href=\"https:\/\/wordlegame.org\/\">Wordle<\/a> has no connection to <strong>wurdle<\/strong> or <strong>wurble<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The English word <strong>warble<\/strong> [\u02c8w\u0254\u0279bl\u0329 \/ \u02c8w\u0254\u02d0bl\u0329] is not related to <strong>wurdle<\/strong> or <strong>wurble<\/strong>. It means to sing like a bird, to cause to quaver or vibrate, to modulate a tone\u2019s frequency, to be modulated or to be uttered melodiously [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/warble#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/snarfel\/11625743866\/in\/photolist-iHjYBL-WjR7vn-WN5117-2eycdBX-2nhY2p5-tbPxx2-YzVFmi-2kZ3PmU-USuEGU-nYXMRk-C76Xxh-vWY7Qs-RutThd-dhQBHa-difBYJ-2m3S39W-2m3ZA2w-2m3S3sb-wgMJS3-aiaH9o-YNWNVU-2migr9Z-fY354H-fY1F6x-3dwqxJ-dhQByB-7Uvg5Q-dibnEJ-2m3WPLa-dieQ5H-aiaHp9-aiaHrJ-2jNcpSa-2cV5won-ai7UKV-FBsVYF-2jNbDsT-aiaH5S-diaNAm-9SmhkR-XQnTE6-YNWMnJ-XQnRsa-bVtx3v-6suzbn-9KehzQ-23FcXc-kxepk-9XuErd-9XuEmL\" title=\"Reed Warbler, Acrocephalus scirpaceus\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/11625743866_289dc5b6a1_z.jpg\" alt=\"Reed Warbler, Acrocephalus scirpaceus\" width=\"640\" height=\"485\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nReed Warbler, <em>Acrocephalus scirpaceus<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Warble<\/strong> comes from the Old North French <em>werbler<\/em> (to sing with trills and quavers, from the Frankish <em>*werbilon<\/em>, possibly from the Proto-Germanic <em>*hwirbilaz<\/em> (circle, ring, whirl) [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/word\/warble\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wurble is a wonderful word that I learnt today. What do you think it means? to warble words in a waffly kind of way to wriggle like a worm to talk or sing with water in your mouth A wurble wurbling Wurble [w\u028crbl] is a Scots words that means: 1. To move forward in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,110,10,34,44,55,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-frankish","category-language","category-old-french","category-proto-germanic","category-scots","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22338"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22343,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22338\/revisions\/22343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}