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/bˈæbəlɪŋ/ /bˈæblɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Babble v. t.

To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way; to repeat, as words, in a childish way without understanding. "These (words) he used to babble in all companies."

To disclose by too free talk, as a secret.

Babble v. i. (past & past part. babbled; pres. part. babbling)

To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles.

To talk incoherently; to utter unmeaning words.

To talk much; to chatter; to prate.

To make a continuous murmuring noise, as shallow water running over stones. "In every babbling brook he finds a friend." Note: Hounds are said to babble, or to be babbling, when they are too noisy after having found a good scent.

Synonyms: To prate; prattle; chatter; gossip.

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Etymology of 'Babbling'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Babbling" Quotes from Famous Books

... hollow and ghastly that they looked like a crew of spectres, sailing beneath the scorching sun that beat down from the pale blue of the cloudless sky upon a sea hardly less blue in its greater depths. Only the hope that they would soon reach Timor seemed to rouse them from a state of babbling delirium or fitful slumber. ...

— The Red True Story Book • Various

... has already fallen upon the jubilant voices of summer will extend and deepen day by day until even the thoughtless babbling of the brooks ceases and the hush becomes universal. The earth, that a little time ago was producing such an endless variety of forms of life and beauty, will give birth to a myriad thoughts, deep, spiritual, and far-reaching; translating into the language of ...

— Under the Trees and Elsewhere • Hamilton Wright Mabie

... vegetation, not only of grass and shrubs, but of trees of considerable height, produced, we had no doubt, by a fountain of clear water which, issuing from the mountain's side at the farther end, flowed down the centre in a babbling stream of some width, though what afterwards became of it we could not discover. Numberless birds, several of gay plumage, flew about in all directions, and were so tame that they perched on the branches close to us whenever we stopped, as ...

— The Two Whalers - Adventures in the Pacific • W.H.G. Kingston

... I left the house early in the morning. It was night when I returned; and Thor was gone. The house was dark, and at first there was no sound. But presently I heard the voice of a child, murmuring and babbling baby words. I passed through the outer hall and the conservatory, and came to where we now are. The lamp was burning as it has ...

— Idolatry - A Romance • Julian Hawthorne

... taken place in my soul was made manifest shortly afterward. For one evening when once again the wind blew mightily down the chimney, and the rain beat hard upon the roof as I was being put to bed, the mechanical babbling of my lips was suddenly transformed into a real, anxious prayer, and therewith the spiritual navel-string, which up to that time had bound me exclusively to my parents, was broken. Indeed things soon went so far that I began to complain to God of my father and mother ...

— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. IX - Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig • Various

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