meaning of burble
1. burble [Lewis Carrolls "Jabberwocky"] Like flame, but connotes that the source is truly clueless and ineffectual mere flamers can be competent. A term of deep contempt. "Theres some guy on the phone burbling about how he got a DISK FULL error and its all our comm softwares fault. " This is mainstream slang in some parts of England. [Jargon File] Burges Language Unnamed functional language based on lambda-calculus. Recursive Programming techniques", W. H. Burge, A-W 1975. buried treasure A surprising piece of code found in some program. While usually not wrong, it tends to vary from crufty to bletcherous, and has lain undiscovered only because it was functionally correct, however horrible it is. Used sarcastically, because what is found is anything *but* treasure. Buried treasure almost always needs to be dug up and removed. "I just found that the scheduler sorts its queue using bubble sort! Buried treasure!" [Jargon File] burn-in 1.
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