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Babbling

noun

1.

Gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby. Synonyms: babble, lallation.

Babble

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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"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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