Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Foolish talk.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable 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
- n. countable sounds produced by infant during the babbling period
- v. present participle of babble.
WordNet 3.0
- n. gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby
Examples
“Your daft babbling is just what is needed to keep things from being, you know, interesting.”
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“NOW is the time for the current administration to continue to step up to the plate and lead America in the direction of greatness again and forget about all the babbling from the kids and move forward with the important issues at hand.”
“I stared passively out the window and impatiently endured the babbling from the nurse.”
“I thought that was it, until today, when the producer emails me and says that my babbling is going to be on “Halo 3: Sci vs. Fi,” on the Sci Fi Channel on September 25 at 4 p.m.”
“You were more interested in babbling on about your enjoying the sound of a motorcycle more than riding one.”
“I can only counsel you, friends, to listen to no vain babbling, to no treacherous jargon about overt acts; they have already been committed.”
“Bull shit bush on CNN babbling from a dunkin donut factory about his imigration crap.”
“This particular mistaken belief has provided the underpinning for the GOP’s grotesquely dishonest domestic policy appeals for decades – from Reagan’s promises to curtail “waste, fraud and abuse” to McCain babbling about bear DNA studies.”
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“The irony about all this Web 2.0 babbling is a) it’s already here, stop branding what already exists, it’s not new unless you want to go get VC money like podcasting and pretend it’s all shiny and cool and b) umm, what about invariably Web 3.0 coming along and shaking it all up?”
“If at 12 months your child is not babbling, that is a sign that you should take them to the doctor.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘babbling’.
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SECOND LETTER A
Words in which the second letter is A
Aa, AAA, Baba, Babe, Babel, AAAA, tangential, baby, bach, back, bad, bade and 90 more...
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Psychology
stockholm syndrome, stereotype, ergonomics, human-computer in..., prejudice, neo-luddism, stress, trauma, psychopathology, psychotic, neurosis, depression and 180 more...
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ChortleGiggleSnort
Significant Words- Guiding you on your path to Snazzibility
flimsy, feeble, ranting, ramble, narky, snazzy, yoghurt, bulbous, pustule, globulous, geranium, megalomaniac and 521 more...
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alopecia
i suppose, all of the words & phrases yoni wolf uses in alopecia, that i love.
ladies man, landmine, cavalier, consumer grade video, single's bingo, all-time gringo, calculated birth, manila envelope, mortaring, houdini, punchline, circus mirrors and 160 more...
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Bird Wirds: Adjectives
Adjectives used in actual (non-taxonomic) bird names, past and present.
roseate, glossy, whooping, neotropic, pelagic, ferruginous, crested, whiskered, marbled, tufted, horned, eared and 818 more...
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my words.
ephemeral, ambivalence, symbiosis, ineffable, transcendental, momentous, zeppelin, agoraphobia, planetarium, cleverness, ambilevous, lambent and 67 more...
Tweets
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isky A constant sound, like a stream, or a person who is speaking to no point. Jul 19, 2009