A Scottish dialect word with several related meanings: as a noun, a state of confusion or perplexity; as a transitive verb, to perplex or confuse someone; and as an intransitive verb, to stutter or stammer. All senses share an underlying idea of something being muddled or disrupted. Primarily historical Scottish usage, found in Scottish literature and dialect dictionaries but not in living everyday speech. It has an expressive, bumbling quality that makes it appealing in historical fiction set in Scotland.
The unexpected question habbled him completely, and he stood there opening and closing his mouth.
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(Scotland, transitive) To perplex.
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(Scotland, intransitive) To stutter or stammer.
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(Scotland) A state of perplexity.
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