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Babble   /bˈæbəl/   Listen
Babble

noun
1.
Gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby.  Synonyms: babbling, lallation.
verb
(past & past part. babbled; pres. part. babbling)
1.
Utter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way.
2.
To talk foolishly.  Synonyms: blather, blether, blither, smatter.
3.
Flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise.  Synonyms: bubble, burble, guggle, gurgle, ripple.
4.
Divulge confidential information or secrets.  Synonyms: babble out, blab, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, peach, sing, spill the beans, talk, tattle.  Antonym: keep quiet.



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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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