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I am sitting next to a waterspout along a building, then I hear some sound caused by water running through it.
What is that sound called in English?
According to my research,
to babble: [intransitive] to make the sound of water flowing over rocks, like a stream
Can "babble" be applied to water running through a pipe?
Or Do we have another common term for it?
Is it correct to say "Can you hear water babbling through the pipe"?
Much more normally, we would refer to it gurgling.
make a hollow bubbling sound like that made by water running out of a bottle:
I would not saying that "babbling" is wrong, but the connotation there is more of brooks and less of pipes.
