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Answer for the clue "Talk nonsense ", 6 letters:
babble

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Word definitions for babble in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-13c., babeln "to prattle, chatter," akin to other Western European words for stammering and prattling (cognates: Swedish babbla , Old French babillier ) attested from the same era, some of which probably were borrowed from others, but etymologists cannot ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Babble may refer to: Babble (That Petrol Emotion album) , 1987 album by That Petrol Emotion Babble (Coyne & Krause album) , 1979 album by Kevin Coyne And Dagmar Krause Babble (band) , a later incarnation of the Thompson Twins Babble (company) , a British ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Babble \Bab"ble\, n. Idle talk; senseless prattle; gabble; twaddle. ``This is mere moral babble.'' --Milton. Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur. The babble of our young children. --Darwin. The babble of the stream. --Tennyson.

Usage examples of babble.

Children who at the babbling stage are not exposed to the sounds of actual speech may not develop the ability to speak later, or do so to an abnormally limited extent.

Farleyfile system would break down if I attempted to mix with crowds, not to mention the unknown hazards of the Actionist goon squads--what I would babble with a minim dose of neodexocaine in the forebrain none of us liked to think about, me least of all.

Farleyfile system would break down if I attempted to mix with crowds, not to mention the unknown hazards of the Actionist goon squads-what I would babble with a minim dose of neodexocaine in the forebrain none of us liked to think about, me least of all.

Neither Gaar nor I liked that comment, but we kept silent while Arem babbled on about what a great fighter Gaar was, and how he should join the Army.

Merely explaining it took the better part of the morning, accomplished in a babble of tongues, with the zenyan argot pervading.

True to its name, the sluggish, mud-brown Blabbermouth babbled loudly and unceasingly, allowing no one to be heard above it without effort.

As the Princess lifted the lid of her white piano in the ring while Mignon flounced her lacy skirts, Buffo, babbling obscenities, was loaded into a waiting cab, leaving the circus for the last time, as he had never done before, in the way that gentlemen did, by the front entrance.

Those bullets brought back futile answers, despite the angry cackle of Li Hoang, and the babbled shouts of Chun Laro.

Straight on towards us came the toiling ship, the dip of oars resonant in the hollow fog and a ripple babbling on her cutwater plainly discernible.

Langdon moved off to continue his inspection, the babbling docent followed like a love-starved puppy.

As Langdon moved off to continue his inspection, the babbling docent followed like a love-starved puppy.

Terilla, Cleiti and Gaber were unceremoniously herded into the shuttle, the cartographer babbling something about how this was not the way matters should proceed and how dared they treat him with such disrespect.

I had the whole thing dug into when Geer came babbling to us with the yarn.

Halfway snickered on bourbon and beer, dressed in a House nightie with a wig to make me look like a gomer, I lay on the bottom bunk while the Runt babbled about pubescence and hooked me up to a cardiac monitor.

Baa Hef babbled incoherently about what he referred to as the table devil, and seemed to believe that he had done something heroic by killing the spirit called Trudy.