Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The chatterer: a name borrowed from the French by Rennie for the lesser white-throat, Sylvia curruca of Europe, la fauvette babillarde of Buffon.
Wiktionary
- n. zoology The lesser whitethroat of Europe
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) The lesser whitethroat of Europe; -- called also
babbling warbler .
Etymologies
- French, a “babbler”. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Quelques instants fugaces de babillard avec des Canadiens perdus dans les grands froids.”
“Marat, whom no power on Earth can prevent seeing into traitors and Rolands, takes to bed for three days; almost dead, the invaluable People's-Friend, with heartbreak, with fever and headache: 'O, Peuple babillard, si tu savais agir, People of Babblers, if thou couldst but act!”
“In the first category were babelard or babillard for ` babbler '; lubbard for ` big, stupid lout' (from which came landlubber); caynard ` lazy dog '(ultimately from the Italian cagna ` bitch'); losard ` rake 'or ` profligate' (from Old English losel ` one who is lost to perdition '); and the mellifluous but contumelious musard, whose sin was day-dreaming.”
“Le babillard, après s'être épuisé en vains propos, voyant qu'Aristote ne lui répondit rien: "Je vous incommode peut-être, lui dit-il, ces bagatelles vous détournent de quelques pensées plus sérieuses?”
“Taciturne et tranquille pour l'ordinaire, mais quelquefois extrêmement pétulant et babillard, presque toujours dans les extrêmes, obstiné et rebelle à la force, fort soumis aux avis qu'on me donnait avec amitié, contenu plutôt par la crainte d'être grondé que par toute autre chose, d'une timidité excessive, et inflexible quand on voulait me prendre à rebours. ”
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Bird Wirds: Sundry Nicknames
A list of birders' "shorthand" names, traditional nicknames, non-English names, and obsolete names for feathered creatures worldwide.
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Tweets
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reesetee The Lesser Whitethroat; also called Babbling Warbler. Aug 10, 2009