babble - Definition from the COLOURS AND SOUNDS topic - COLOURS AND SOUNDS

Topic: COLOURS AND SOUNDS

Date:	1200-1300
Origin:	Probably from the sound

babble
1 verb

bab‧ble1

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1 [intransitive and transitive] to speak quickly in a way that is difficult to understand or sounds silly:

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I have no idea what he was babbling on about.

2 [intransitive]C to make a sound like water moving over stones

—babbler noun [countable]

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