babble

Definition of babble in English English dictionary: Idle talk; senseless prattle; gabble; twaddle; To make a continuous murmuring noise, as shallow water running over stones
Hounds are said to babble, or to be babbling, when they are too noisy after having found a good scent.; A sound of or alike that which of flowing water; To talk incoherently; to utter unmeaning words; To talk much; to chatter; to prate; To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as, a child babbles; 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. - John Arbuthnot.; To disclose by too free talk, as a secret; Inarticulate speech, such as was used at the building the tower of Babel; constant or confused murmur
The babble of the stream. - Alfred Tennyson.; {v} i. to talk idly or much, to tell secret; {n} idle talk, chat; Often a form of Fundie expression Babble [verb] [OW] consists of repetitive, incoherent and/or undocumented speech See also piffle and chanting; In transmission systems, the aggregate of crosstalk induced in a given line by all other lines; Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur; gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby to talk foolishly; "The two women babbled and crooned at the baby"; gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby; to talk foolishly; "The two women babbled and crooned at the baby"; {i} chatter, prattle; muttering; gushing, bubbling; divulge confidential information or secrets; "Be careful--his secretary talks"; You can refer to people's voices as a babble of sound when they are excited and confused, preventing you from understanding what they are saying. Kemp knocked loudly so as to be heard above the high babble of voices; If someone babbles, they talk in a confused or excited way. Momma babbled on and on about how he was ruining me They all babbled simultaneously `Er, hello, viewers,' he babbled; Speechlike but meaningless sounds made by children from the ages of around 3 months through 1 year; The aggregate crosstalk from a large number of communications channels; utter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way; "The old man is only babbling--don't pay attention"; Crosstalk from multiple channels or circuits; gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby to talk foolishly; "The two women babbled and crooned at the baby" utter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way; "The old man is only babbling--don't pay attention; flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise; "babbling brooks"; utter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way; "The old man is only babbling--don't pay attention; {f} chatter; mumble; gush, bubble; the first stage in the infant’s progress towards speech production, highlighted by the playful production of universally recognizable single-consonant and vowel-like sounds and repetitive syllable strings; babblement; babblery
babble out: spill the beans: divulge confidential information or secrets; "Be careful--his secretary talks"
babbler: any of several passerine birds, of the families Timaliidae (found in Asia, Africa) and Pomatostomidae (found in Australia)
babbler: someone who babbles
babbling: Present participle of babble
babbling: a stage in child language acquisition, during which an infant appears to be experimenting with uttering sounds of language, but not yet producing any recognizable words
babbling: sounds produced by infant during the babbling period
edu-babble: jargon on educational topics
babbler: {n} an idle or great talker, a telltale
babbling: {n} idle talk, chat
babbled: past of babble
babbler: A name given to any one of a family (Timalinæ) of thrushlike birds, having a chattering note
babbler: an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker
babbler: {i} one who chatters; gossiper; type of bird from the passerine birds that has a loud babbling call (Zoology); tape recording of several voices talking simultaneously that is used as an anti-bugging apparatus to prevent or disturb eavesdropping
babbler: any of various insectivorous Old World birds with a loud incessant song; in some classifications considered members of the family Muscicapidae
babbler: An idle talker; an irrational prater; a teller of secrets
babbler: A hound too noisy on finding a good scent
babbles: third-person singular of babble
babbling: gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby
babbling: continuous low murmuring sound; as especially of water; "a babbling brook
babbling: talking idly or incoherently; "blithering (or blathering) idiot"; "jabbering children"; "gabbling housewives"; "a babbling hospital inmate"
babbling: continuous low murmuring sound; as especially of water; "a babbling brook"
babbling: {s} that jabbers, blathering, jabbering
babbling: {i} chatter, prattle; babble; speaking continuously in an unintelligible manner

babble

Hyphenation

bab·ble

Turkish pronunciation

bäbıl

Synonyms

blubbering, burble, chatter, clamor, drivel, gab, gabble, gibberish, gossip, gushing, idle talk, jabber, jabbering, jargon, murmur

Antonyms

quiet, sense, wisdom, be quiet

Pronunciation

/ˈbabəl/ /ˈbæbəl/

Etymology

[ 'ba-b&l ] (verb.) 13th century. From Middle English babelen, from Old English *bæblian, also wæflian (“to talk foolishly”), from Proto-Germanic *babalōnan (“to chatter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰa-bʰa-, *baba- (“to talk vaguely, mumble”). Cognate with Old Frisian babbelje (“to babble”), Old Norse babbla (“to babble”) (Swedish babbla), Middle Low German babbelen (“to babble”), Dutch babbelen (“to babble”), German pappeln and babbeln (“to babble”).

Tenses

babbles, babbling, babbled

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