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  1. intransitive verb To utter a meaningless confusion of words or sounds: Babies babble before they can talk.
  2. intransitive verb To talk foolishly or idly; chatter: "In 1977 [he] was thought of as crazy because he was babbling about supply side” (Newt Gingrich).
  3. intransitive verb To make a continuous low, murmuring sound, as flowing water.
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  • They adorned "AAA" ratings on trillions of MBS, ABS, and CDOs during the heyday of the boom - back when home prices were forever rising, incomes were surging, credit losses were disappearing, and new era babble was as unnerving as it was alluring. —  Asia Times Online
  • ItaKiss anime, then any further babble is as unrequited as Kotoko's love for Naoki —  Japanator
  • I have no desire in hearing everyones psycho-babble, are any of you that post actual Psychiatrists or psychlogists? because if not I don't think you have the education to be analyzing everyone. —  New Statesman
  • There is some babble which is inverted: 'The music is reversible, but time is not, turn back, turn back, turn back'. —  jeffmilner.com
  • And that's also the difference between talking about this on babble, and talking about —  rabble.ca - News for the rest of us
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chatter ·  prattle ·  clamor ·  gabble ·  murmur ·  hubbub ·  buzz ·  jargon ·  clatter ·  din ·  shout ·  squeal

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babble:   babbled
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English babelen.

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  1. from Middle English babelen, bablen = Dutch babbelen = Low German babbelen = Icelandic babbla = Danish bable = German bappeln, bappern, babble (cf. French babiller, chatter); all perhaps imitative, with freq. suffix -I, from the redupl. syllable ba: see ba.
  2. from babble, v.
 

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