Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a babbling manner; with babblement; pratingly.

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  • adverb In a babbling way.

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Examples

  • We know we dress like idiots and we know, as the play's characters do, that when they're talking about Aerosmith's disappointments as the play's characters do, they're also talking about our own failed (for now) potential if we refuse to be more than wittily, babblingly, unsubstantially uncommunicative.

    Monica Westin: Why Hipsters Will Save Theater: Cherrywood 2010

  • We know we dress like idiots and we know, as the play's characters do, that when they're talking about Aerosmith's disappointments as the play's characters do, they're also talking about our own failed (for now) potential if we refuse to be more than wittily, babblingly, unsubstantially uncommunicative.

    Monica Westin: Why Hipsters Will Save Theater: Cherrywood 2010

  • He's one of those people who's so articulate that he becomes completely, babblingly incoherent.

    CNN Transcript Jan 13, 2002 2002

  • He was aware of beautiful damsels in gauzy draperies pantingly hurrying through the dusky avenues with steel-clad knights in hot pursuit; of grey old monks, cowled and sandalled, moving hither and thither in a world of utter peace; and of dryads and fairies, fauns and satyrs, filling the woodland with dreamy poetry, as the wind filled its giant rafters with music, and the brooks purled babblingly through the crevices of its floor.

    Drolls From Shadowland

  • Dyce had never known the old autocrat so babblingly iterative.

    Our Friend the Charlatan George Gissing 1880

  • The true punster's mind cycles through homophones in search of a quip the way small children delight in rhymes or experiment babblingly with language.

    BrothersJudd Blog 2009

  • The true punster’s mind cycles through homophones in search of a quip the way small children delight in rhymes or experiment babblingly with language.

    Punditry 2009

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