BABBLE

v. n.

8 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles.

2.
v.

To talk incoherently; to utter unmeaning words.

3.
v.

To talk much; to chatter; to prate.

4.
v.

To make a continuous murmuring noise, as shallow water running over stones. In every babbling he finds a friend. Wordsworth.

5.
v.

To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way; to repeat,as words, in a childish way without understanding. These [words] he used to babble in all companies. Arbuthnot.

6.
v.

To disclose by too free talk, as a secret.

7.
n.

Idle talk; senseless prattle; gabble; twaddle. "This is mere moral babble." Milton.

8.
n.

Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur. The babble of our young children. Darwin. The babble of the stream. Tennyson.