babbling
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Babble \Bab"ble\ (b[a^]b"b'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Babbled}
(b[a^]b"b'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Babbling}.] [Cf. LG. babbeln,
D. babbelen, G. bappeln, bappern, F. babiller, It. babbolare;
prob. orig., to keep saying ba, imitative of a child learning
to talk.]
1. To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter
inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles.
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2. To talk incoherently; to utter unmeaning words.
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3. To talk much; to chatter; to prate.
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4. To make a continuous murmuring noise, as shallow water
running over stones.
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In every babbling brook he finds a friend.
--Wordsworth.
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Note: Hounds are said to babble, or to be babbling, when they
are too noisy after having found a good scent.
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Syn: To prate; prattle; chatter; gossip.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
51 Moby Thesaurus words for "babbling":
arrested, backward, blithering, bubbling, burbling, crackbrained,
cracked, crazy, cretinistic, cretinous, delirious, dithering,
dizzy, driveling, drooling, giddy, guggling, gurgling, half-baked,
half-witted, idiotic, imbecile, imbecilic, incoherent, lapping,
lightheaded, maundering, mentally defective, mentally deficient,
mentally handicapped, mentally retarded, mongoloid, moronic,
not all there, off, plashing, rambling, ranting, raving, retarded,
rippling, simple, simpleminded, simpletonian, slobbering, sloshing,
splashing, subnormal, swishing, trilling, wandering
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