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Babble   /bˈæbəl/   Listen
noun
Babble  n.  
1.
Idle talk; senseless prattle; gabble; twaddle. "This is mere moral babble."
2.
Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur. "The babble of our young children." "The babble of the stream."


verb
Babble  v. t.  
1.
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."
2.
To disclose by too free talk, as a secret.


Babble  v. i.  (past & past part. babbled; pres. part. babbling)  
1.
To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles.
2.
To talk incoherently; to utter unmeaning words.
3.
To talk much; to chatter; to prate.
4.
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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"Babble" Quotes from Famous Books



... attacked the intellectual fire-eaters, the patriots who insult other peoples and the Chauvinists generally. He defends France, the French army and French civilisation, against the brilliant novelist, Thomas Mann. Above all does he condemn the intellectual babble: "The wrong that these privy councillors and professors have done us with their 'Aufklaerungsarbeit' can hardly be measured. They have isolated themselves from humanity by their inability to ...
— The Better Germany in War Time - Being some Facts towards Fellowship • Harold Picton
... It was a multi-channel set designed for military use. A number of images were carried on the screen at one time, rows of heads or hazy backgrounds where the user had left the field of view. Many of the heads were talking at the same time and the babble of their voices ...
— Deathworld • Harry Harrison
... least," Jeanne answered frankly. "I am tired of mirrors and electric lights and babble. I prefer our present surroundings, and I should not mind at all if some of those disapproving ancestors of yours stepped out of their frames and took their places with ...
— Jeanne of the Marshes • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... low, gurgling sound, and made up his mind to babble a few words about the caverns; but his throat was dry, and his tongue ...
— Cormorant Crag - A Tale of the Smuggling Days • George Manville Fenn
... Country, a babble of black spume . . . Faith, an eyeball in the sand . . . Mother, a nail through a broken hand— A kissing fume— And out of her breast the bloody bubbling milk-red breath ...
— Spectra - A Book of Poetic Experiments • Arthur Ficke


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