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Verb
/ˈbabəl/,
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babbled, past participle; babbles, 3rd person singular present; babbling, present participle; babbled, past tense;
  1. Talk rapidly and continuously in a foolish, excited, or incomprehensible way
    • - he would babble on in his gringo Spanish
  2. Utter something rapidly and incoherently
    • - I gasped and stared and babbled, “Look at this!”
    • - he began to babble an apology
  3. Reveal something secret or confidential by talking impulsively or carelessly
    • - he babbled to another convict while he was in jail
    • - my father babbled out the truth
  4. (of a stream) Make the continuous murmuring sound of water flowing over stones
    • - a gently babbling brook
Noun
  1. The sound of people talking quickly and in a way that is difficult or impossible to understand
    • - a babble of protest
  2. Foolish, excited, or confused talk
    • - her soft voice stopped his babble
  3. Pretentious jargon from a specified field
    • - to shed light on such transatlantic psycho-babble
  4. The continuous murmuring sound of water flowing over stones in a stream
    • - the babble of a brook
  5. Background disturbance caused by interference from conversations on other telephone lines

  1. gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby
  2. utter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way; "The old man is only babbling--don't pay attention"
  3. to talk foolishly; "The two women babbled and crooned at the baby"
  4. ripple: flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise; "babbling brooks"
  5. spill the beans: divulge confidential information or secrets; "Be careful--his secretary talks"
  6. Babble is the second album by Irish alternative rockers That Petrol Emotion, released in 1987. The album was re-released in 2001 with additional tracks. It was the band's only proper chart success, due to being their first and only top 40 entry at #30.
  7. The Thompson Twins were a British New wave group that were formed in April 1977 and disbanded in May 1993. They achieved considerable popularity in the mid 1980s, scoring a string of hits in the UK, the US and around the globe. ...
  8. Babble is a British internet telephony service. It was one of the first commercialisations of VoIP technology, appearing in 2004 approximately 6 months after the proprietary Skype opened up interest in telephony over the internet. ...
  9. Babble was a game show that was produced by LWT and broadcast on Channel 4 from 1982 until 1986. The programme was hosted by Peter Purves.
  10. Babbling (also called baby talk or twaddling) is a stage in child and a state in language acquisition, during which an infant appears to be experimenting with uttering sounds of language, but not yet producing any recognizable words. ...
  11. Idle talk; senseless prattle; gabble; twaddle; Inarticulate speech, such as was used at the building the tower of Babel; constant or confused murmur; A sound of or alike that which of flowing water; To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as, a child babbles ...
  12. (babbled) talked without saying much
  13. (Babbles) The REAL reason Scientology hates TOW
  14. (Babbling) A producton of sounds that resemble many different languages.
  15. (Babbling) Considered a fault, babbling is defined as when a dog barks three times or has been struck where no track is evident. In its most common form, it takes place right when the dog is turned loose and consists of a dozen or less excited barks as the dog is leaving the handlers.
  16. (Babbling) In this case, "babbling" does not mean vocal babbling. Instead, Washoe used untaught signs to express a desire. She used a begging gesture, which was not much different from the ASL signs "give me" and "come." (Human infants who are learning sign language often babble with their hands.)
  17. (Babbling) Nonmeaningful sequences of consonants and vowels produced by infants
  18. (Babbling) Single-syllable nonpurposeful consonant-vowel (CV) or vowel-consonant (VC) vocalizations that begin at about four months of age.
  19. (Babbling) Typically by six to nine months, a child begins to vocalize repeated consonant-vowel combinations, like "ba ba ba," "da da da," called babbling. ...
  20. (babbling) (brook) adj. [rhy. sl. = CROOK adj.] [2000s] (N.Z.) unwell.
  21. When a hound gives tongue for anything other than a good fox scent.
  22. A stream of speech, expected by the application, that continues beyond a time limit set by the application. ...
  23. Unexpected bus activity that persists beyond a specified point in a frame.
  24. to bark (speak) out of turn (referring to hounds)
  25. A pre-speech vocalization in which repetitions of syllables dominate.  For example, “bababa” and “dadada”.