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Babble

noun

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

verb

(past & past part. babbled; pres. part. babbling)

Utter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way.

To talk foolishly. Synonyms: blather, blether, blither, smatter.

Flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise. Synonyms: bubble, burble, guggle, gurgle, ripple.

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.

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"Babble" Quotes from Famous Books

... scenes, appealed, as it whistled to and fro upon the Providence Railroad, to some soft bucolic sentiment in the listener, and sending its note, ordinarily so discordant, across that human uproar, seemed to "babble of green fields." And at last it wooed us away, and the Jubilee was again ...

— Suburban Sketches • W.D. Howells

... Why you no helps me to? Upon my live. All trees have very deal bear. A throat's ill. You shall catch cold one's. You make grins. Will some mutton? Will you fat or slight? Will you this? Will you a bon? You not make who to babble. You not make that to prate all day's work. You interompt me. You mistake you self heavily. You come ...

— English as she is spoke - or, A jest in sober earnest • Jose da Fonseca

... whom the principle of animal life has unfortunately survived that of mental intelligence. He gazed a moment at me, but then seemed insensible of my presence, and went on—he, once the most courteous and well-bred—to babble unintelligible but violent reproaches against his niece and servant, because he himself had dropped a teacup in attempting to place it on a table at his elbow. His eyes caught a momentary fire from his irritation; but he struggled in vain ...

— Chronicles of the Canongate • Sir Walter Scott

... against a glass. Norton, his body pressed against the wall, stood still, waiting for other voices, for Galloway's, for Vidal Nunez's. But after Kid Rickard's jarring mirth it was strangely still in the Casa Blanca; no noise of clicking chips bespeaking a poker game, no loud-voiced babble, no sound of a man ...

— The Bells of San Juan • Jackson Gregory

... My window glimpses larch and heather. I hardly hear the tuneful babble, Not knowing nor much caring whether The text is praise or exhortation, Prayer or ...

— Georgian Poetry 1916-17 - Edited by Sir Edward Howard Marsh • Various

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