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BIBBLE

PRONUNCIATION: (BIB-l)

MEANING: verb tr.: 1. To eat or drink noisily.
verb intr.: 2. To drink habitually or to excess.
3. To produce bubbles or a bubbling sound.
noun: 4. Nonsense; something worthless or deceptive.

ETYMOLOGY: Senses 1-2: From bib (to drink) + -le (a frequentative ending). Probably from Latin bibere (to drink).
Senses 3-4: A variant of bubble, of expressive origin.
Earliest documented use: 1529.
See also: misophonia.
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BIBILE - diminutive name for Israeli former prime Minister

BI-BILE - describing a liver that synthesizes two distinct secretions

BIRBLE - what a Jabberwock does as it whiffes through the tulgey wood

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JACTATION

PRONUNCIATION: (jak-TAY-shuhn)

MEANING: noun:
1. Boasting.
2. Involuntary bodily movements, such as tossing or twitching.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin jactation (tossing, boasting), from jactare (to throw, boast), frequentative of jacere (to throw). Earliest documented use: 1576. Also spelled as jactitation.
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JAVATION - adding coffee flavoring

JA-STATION - a place where all the Germans agree with you automatically

X-ACTATION - carving with a very small, very sharp knife

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