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Babble   /bˈæbəl/   Listen
noun
Babble  n.  
1.
Idle talk; senseless prattle; gabble; twaddle. "This is mere moral babble."
2.
Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur. "The babble of our young children." "The babble of the stream."


verb
Babble  v. t.  
1.
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."
2.
To disclose by too free talk, as a secret.


Babble  v. i.  (past & past part. babbled; pres. part. babbling)  
1.
To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles.
2.
To talk incoherently; to utter unmeaning words.
3.
To talk much; to chatter; to prate.
4.
To make a continuous murmuring noise, as shallow water running over stones. "In every babbling brook he finds a friend." Note: Hounds are said to babble, or to be babbling, when they are too noisy after having found a good scent.
Synonyms: To prate; prattle; chatter; gossip.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Babble" Quotes from Famous Books



... my son, take my advice. Avoid The places where thou seest much drapery, Colours, and gold, and plumes, and heraldries, And such new-fanglements. But, above all, Take care how evil chance or youthful wandering Bring thee upon the house of Idle Babble." "What place is that?" said I; and he resumed;— "Enchantresses dwell there, who make one see Things as they are not, ay and hear them too. That which shall seem pure diamond and fine gold Is glass and brass; and coffers that look silver, Heavy with wealth, ...
— Stories from the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers, Vol. 2 • Leigh Hunt
... above the earth that all men everywhere could see to which spot on the surface it pointed. Or, had they been devout men, they would have listened for heavenly voices—it is always your devout man who tries to hear other things than the babble of the Babel in which he lives—they, too, could have heard the angelic chorus like the shepherds in the fields and on the ...
— A Little Book for Christmas • Cyrus Townsend Brady
... he had laid his hand on the arm of the man with the woman. Both spun quickly about. A babble ...
— The Palace of Darkened Windows • Mary Hastings Bradley
... leaning for support against the jamb, kept her piercing eyes on his face, though his would not meet their gaze; while Morton rolled great frightened orbs from one to the other, as from within came unconscious Molly's gleeful babble, and the baby's sweet little ...
— Sara, a Princess • Fannie E. Newberry
... as well as of sight, and one must have some idea of the size of a noise before one can judge of its distance. A mosquito's horn in a dark room may seem like a trumpet on the battlements; and the tumult of a mighty stream heard through an unknown stretch of woods may appear like the babble of a mountain brook ...
— Little Rivers - A Book Of Essays In Profitable Idleness • Henry van Dyke


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