babbling

babbling
n
chatter, chattering, prattle, prattling, small talk, chit-chat, chitter-chatter; gossip, buzzing, Inf. gab, idle or foolish talk; palaver, Sl. hot air, Sl. gas, Sl. bull; nonsense, gibberish, jargon, gobblede-gook; jabbering, jabber, Jabberwocky; cackling, cackle, gibbering, gibber; babbling, babble, babblement, Fr. bavardage. rambling, maundering; prate, prating, tattling, tattle, twaddling, twaddle, Both Brit. twattling, twattle; pattering, patter, gabbling, gabble, blathering, blather, driveling, drivel; blab, blabbing, gushing, Inf. spouting, Sl. running off or on at the mouth.

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