babble
verb/ˈbæbl/
/ˈbæbl/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they babble | /ˈbæbl/ /ˈbæbl/ |
| he / she / it babbles | /ˈbæblz/ /ˈbæblz/ |
| past simple babbled | /ˈbæbld/ /ˈbæbld/ |
| past participle babbled | /ˈbæbld/ /ˈbæbld/ |
| -ing form babbling | /ˈbæblɪŋ/ /ˈbæblɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] babble (away/on) (something) to talk quickly in a way that is difficult to understand
- He could babble away on the topic of cooking for hours at a time.
- She babbled an apology and quickly left.
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- [intransitive] to make the sound of water flowing over rocks, like a stream
- a babbling brook
Word OriginMiddle English: from Middle Low German babbelen, or an independent English formation, as a frequentative based on the repeated syllable ba, typical of a child's early speech.
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