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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
babble \bab"ble\ ba^b"b'l, v. i. imp.  p. p. babbled
   ba^b"b'ld; p. pr.  vb. n. babbling. cf. lg. babbeln,
   d. babbelen, g. bappeln, bappern, f. babiller, it. babbolare;
   prob. orig., to keep saying ba, imitative of a child learning
   to talk.
   1. to utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter
      inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles.
      1913 webster

   2. to talk incoherently; to utter unmeaning words.
      1913 webster

   3. to talk much; to chatter; to prate.
      1913 webster

   4. to make a continuous murmuring noise, as shallow water
      running over stones.
      1913 webster

            in every babbling brook he finds a friend.
                                                  --wordsworth.
      1913 webster

   note: hounds are said to babble, or to be babbling, when they
         are too noisy after having found a good scent.
         1913 webster

   syn: to prate; prattle; chatter; gossip.
        1913 webster
see also:
babbled babbling 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
babbling
     adj 1: talking idly or incoherently; "blithering or blathering
            idiot"; "jabbering children"; "gabbling housewives";
            "a babbling hospital inmate" syn: blathering, blithering,
             jabbering
     2: continuous low murmuring sound; as especially of water; "a
        babbling brook"
     n : gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby syn: babble, lallation
see also:
blathering blithering jabbering babble lallation 
[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
51 moby thesaurus words for "babbling":
   arrested, backward, blithering, bubbling, burbling, crackbrained,
   cracked, crazy, cretinistic, cretinous, delirious, dithering,
   dizzy, driveling, drooling, giddy, guggling, gurgling, half-baked,
   half-witted, idiotic, imbecile, imbecilic, incoherent, lapping,
   lightheaded, maundering, mentally defective, mentally deficient,
   mentally handicapped, mentally retarded, mongoloid, moronic,
   not all there, off, plashing, rambling, ranting, raving, retarded,
   rippling, simple, simpleminded, simpletonian, slobbering, sloshing,
   splashing, subnormal, swishing, trilling, wandering





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