Babble \Bab"ble\, v. t. 1. 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.
2. To disclose by too free talk, as a secret.
Babble \Bab"ble\ (b[a^]b"b'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Babbled} (b[a^]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.
2. To talk incoherently; to utter unmeaning words.
3. To talk much; to chatter; to prate.
4. To make a continuous murmuring noise, as shallow water running over stones.
In every babbling brook he finds a friend. --Wordsworth.
Note: Hounds are said to babble, or to be babbling, when they are too noisy after having found a good scent.
Syn: To prate; prattle; chatter; gossip.
Babble \Bab"ble\, n. 1. Idle talk; senseless prattle; gabble; twaddle. ``This is mere moral babble.'' --Milton.
2. Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur.
The babble of our young children. --Darwin.
The babble of the stream. --Tennyson.
But it is a bad idea for him to send the tape of all this back to his former girlfriend in New York, complete with a nonstop, high-speed babble of narration in which he often says he wishes she were with him.
Their wives and children utter the predictable Hollywood babble wives and children (in Hollywood, anyway) mutter when stuck in the woods with two people who just don't get along.
Mr. Keefe's explanation of the state pension-fund issue is typical of the Dukakis administration members' babble theory: They think that if they talk in a complicated enough circle, the voters will think they must know what they're talking about.
The two groups babble at each other constantly, while the general public is locked out, sullenly wondering what is going on inside.
And just who is buried in that third grave in the back garden? It is only at the end, when Emma's narration gives way to the babble of her airhead grandson, that the novel loses its edge.
"As you listen to this babble over here, you can't help but think of the Dukakis positions," Quayle told the crowd. "They have no positions.