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/bˈæbəlɪŋ/ /bˈæblɪŋ/ Listen

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.

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"Babbling" Quotes from Famous Books

... infirmity approaches death the intellectual faculties are dimmed, his senses become less and less, and as he loses these he goes back to his old superstition. Old age brings back the memories of childhood. And the great bard gave in the corrupt and besotted Falstaff—who prattled of babbling brooks and green fields—an instance of the retracing steps taken by the memory at the last gasp. It has been said that the bible was sanctified by our mothers. Every superstition in the world, from the beginning of all time, has had such a sanctification. The ...

— Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest • Robert Green Ingersoll

... of them bedizened with the cheap finery of the stores, some of them wearing only bright-hued blankets, but with wonderful head-dresses of eagle feathers, and all of them looking gravely on with a curiosity as silent as that of the habitans was noisy and babbling. The presence of so many Indians and on such friendly terms struck me as strange, for in Kentucky there were no such friendly relations between Indians and whites, and the presence of so many of them would have betokened ...

— The Rose of Old St. Louis • Mary Dillon

... Bull that bought me,' said Mowgli, who was trying to get at the shoulder, 'must I stay babbling to an old ape all noon? Here, Akela, this ...

— The Kipling Reader - Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling • Rudyard Kipling

... I can," said Jeff; and in a minute or two they stood before the matronizing hostess, after a passage through the babbling and laughing groups that looked as impossible after they had made ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... anything to keep his world in ignorance of what had befallen him. Even a man's independence is injured by excesses. As the tissues waste, the esteem of men is fawned for instead of being honestly earned, criticism is deprecated, importance is attached to the babbling of blockheads, and even to the opinion of fools. What should have been self-respect in Major Colquhoun had degenerated into a devouring vanity, which rendered him thin-skinned to the slightest aspersion. He had married Evadne in order to win the credit of having secured an exceptionally young ...

— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand

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