warble

1. 1.

   a lumpy abscess under the hide of domestic mammals caused by larvae of a botfly or warble fly

   Broaderanimal disease

Other forms of warble

plural

warbles·

past tense

warbled·

present participle

warbling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about warble

What does warble mean?

warble means "sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in warble?

warble has 2 syllables: war-ble. The stress falls on "war". In IPA it is /ˈwɔɹbəl/.

What is another word for warble?

Close synonyms include trill, quaver, yodel, descant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is warble a common word?

warble is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.