babble

babble
v
1. gibber, Sl. gibber-jabber, jargon; mutter, mumble, splutter, sputter; stammer, stutter.
2. chatter, chipper, prattle, cackle; twaddle, Brit. twattle, blather, drivel; talk nonsense, Inf. talk through one's hat; jabber, prate, bleat, Inf. gab; chitchat, chitter-chatter, chaffer, bandy words; talk idly, Sl. shoot the breeze, Sl. gas, Sl. bull; palaver, clack, clatter, rattle, Sl. run off or on at the mouth; gush, blab, Inf. spout; gossip, buzz, tell tales, repeat everything one hears; be loquacious or talkative, ramble, maunder.
3. murmur, whisper, buzz; hum, drone, purr; purl, sough, rustle.
4. blab, blurt out, let slip, reveal foolishly; tattle, tattle-tale, tell on, inform on, Sl. squeal on, divulge secrets.
n
5. gibberish, gibbering, Sl. gibber-jabbering, jargon; muttering, mumbling, spluttering, sputtering; stammering, stuttering.
6. prattle, prattling, chatter, chattering, chippering, cackle, cackling; jabber, Jabberwocky, prate, prating, twaddle, twaddling, Brit. twattle, Brit. twattling; patter, pattering, gabble, gabbling, blather, blathering, drivel, driveling; nonsense, Fr. bavardage. gobblede-gook, hocus-pocus, mumbo-jumbo, abracadabra, open-sesame; humbug, flummery, Sl. bunk, rubbish, Inf. rot, Sl. garbage, Sl. horsefeathers; balderdash, hogwash, stuff and nonsense, Inf. bosh, fudge, foolishness, rigmarole or rigamarole; poppycock, Inf. fiddlefaddle, Inf. piffle, Inf. kibosh, Inf. flapdoodle; small talk, Anglo-Indian. bukh, chit-chat, chitter-chatter; gossip, Inf. scuttlebutt, buzz, idle talk, Inf. gab, Sl. bull; palaver, claptrap, Sl. hot air, Sl. gas.
7. murmur, murmuring, murmuration; whisper, whispering, buzz, buzzing; hum, humming, drone, droning, purr, purring; purl, purling, sough, soughing, rustle, rustling.
8.(in reference to sounds) medley, melange, mixture, muddle, confusion; cacophony, jumble, hodgepodge, disorder.

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  • Babble — Bab ble, n. 1. Idle talk; senseless prattle; gabble; twaddle. This is mere moral babble. Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur. [1913 Webster] The babble of our young children. Darwin. [1913 Webster] The… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Babble — Bab ble, v. t. 1. To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way; to repeat, as words, in a childish way without understanding. [1913 Webster] These [words] he used to babble in all companies. Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster] 2. To disclose by too free… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • babble — [n] trivial talk, often incessant blubbering, burble, chatter, clamor, drivel, gab, gabble, gibberish, gossip, gushing, idle talk, jabber, jabbering, jargon, murmur, muttering, prattle, ranting, tattling; concepts 266,278 Ant. quiet, sense,… …   New thesaurus

  • -babble — [bab′əl] combining form jargon or wordy and confusing language related to or characteristic of a (specified) field, group, etc.: often used in nonce compounds [technobabble] * * * …   Universalium

  • babble — index jargon (unintelligible language), prattle Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

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