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babbling
bab·ble B0002600 (băb′əl)v. bab·bled, bab·bling, bab·bles v.intr.1. To utter a meaningless confusion of words or sounds: Babies babble before they can talk.2. To talk foolishly or idly; chatter: "As I babbled on ... I did not notice that my parents, in the front seat, had fallen completely silent" (Oliver Sacks).3. To make a continuous low, murmuring sound, as flowing water.v.tr.1. To utter rapidly and indistinctly: "Toward the end he babbled old stories, randomly cobbled together" (Julia Whitty).2. To blurt out impulsively; disclose without careful consideration.n.1. Inarticulate or meaningless talk or sounds.2. Idle or foolish talk; chatter.3. A continuous low, murmuring sound, as of flowing water.
[Middle English babelen.]Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  babbling - gibberish resembling the sounds of a babybabble, lallationgibber, gibberish - unintelligible talking |
babblingadjectiveEmitting a murmuring sound felt to resemble a laugh:bubbling, burbling, gurgling, laughing, rippling.TranslationsEncyclopediaSeebabblebabbling
babbling Quasi-random vocalisations by infants which precedes language acquisition. Babbling is intimately linked to the abstract structure of language and not—contrary to prevailing opinion—a concrete specific linguistic structure. For instance, language acquisition in the profoundly deaf is not hindered by the lack of auditory and verbal signals; deaf infants born to deaf parents produce a manual version of vocalisations (manual babbling, or “man-bling”), in which structures similar to linguistics (e.g., “phonology”, morphology, syntax and semantics) are acquired in the manual form.babbling Neurology Quasi-random vocalizations in infants that precede language acquisition. See Lalling stage. babbling
Related to babbling: babbling brook, babbling stageSynonyms for babblingadj emitting a murmuring sound felt to resemble a laughSynonyms- bubbling
- burbling
- gurgling
- laughing
- rippling
Synonyms for babblingnoun gibberish resembling the sounds of a babySynonymsRelated Words |