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

Babble. Hawthorne.

An idle talker; an irrational prater; a teller of secrets. Great babblers, or talkers, are not fit for trust. L'Estrange.

Babble. [Obs.] Sir T. More

Idle talk; babble. Shak.

To utter foolishly or excessively; to surpass in babbling. [R.] Milton.

One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale. "Avoided as a blab." Milton. For who will open himself to a blab or a babbler. Bacon.

To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to patter. [Archaic] "The rain blattered." Jeffrey. They procured . . . preachers to blatter against me, . . . so that they had place and time to belie me shamefully. Latimer.

One who blatters; a babbler; a noisy, blustering boaster.

Senseless babble or boasting.

A senseless babbler or boaster. [Obs.] "I hate such blatteroons." Howell.

Rapid, noisy talk; babble; chatter. "Hold still thy clatter." Towneley Myst. (15 th Cent. ). Throw by your clatter And handle the matter. B. Jonson

Inarticulate or unmeaning utterance; foolish talk; babble.

To prate; to jabber; to babble. [Obs.] Here many, clepid filosophirs, glavern diversely. Wyclif.

erent; showing a want of reverence; expressive of a want of veneration; as, an irreverent babbler; an irreverent jest.

To talk idly; to prate; to babble; to chatter; to gossip. "Thou janglest as a jay." Chaucer.

An idle talker; a babbler; a prater. Chaucer.

A female prater or babbler.

To prate; to gossip; to babble; to blab. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To babble; to chatter. [Obs.]