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a song that refuses to walk in a straight line.
means To sing or speak with a trilling, quavering tone, the pitch wobbling sweetly up and down like a bird's call.
from From Old North French 'werbler,' to sing with trills, which traces back to a Frankish root related to 'wirbil' meaning whirlwind or whirl — so the word carries the sense of a sound spinning and turning, never holding still. A cousin of 'whirl' and 'warp' lives somewhere in that same swirling family.
- origin
- From Old French werbler, meaning to trill or quaver
- bird brain
- Songbirds learn warbles like babies learn speech
- two-throated
- Some birds sing two notes at once mid-warble
- dark twin
- A warble fly larva burrows under mammal skin
- audio sin
- Pitch warble ruins vinyl and tape recordings
northern mockingbird — can produce over 200 different song types, mimicking other bird species across north america
wood thrush — produces ethereal warbling songs with two simultaneous frequencies in eastern us forests
nightingale — legendary for its complex, loud warbling song across europe and western asia