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babbler
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Babbler may refer to: Old World babbler , a large family of mostly Old World passerine birds Australo-Papuan babbler , passerine birds endemic to Australia-New Guinea The Babbler , the journal of BirdLife International in Indochina The Babbler , the occasional ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Someone who babbles. 2 Any of several passerine birds, of the families ''Timaliidae'' (found in Asia, Africa) and ''Pomatostomidae'' (found in Australia). 3 (context dated English) A hound who is too noisy on finding a good scent.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thrush \Thrush\, n. [OE. [thorn]rusche, AS. [thorn]rysce; akin to OHG. drosca, droscea, droscela, and E. throstle. Cf. Throstle .] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of singing birds belonging to Turdus and allied genera. They are noted for the sweetness ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n: an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker [syn: chatterer , prater , chatterbox , magpie , spouter ] any of various insectivorous Old World birds with a loud incessant song; in some classifications considered members of the family Muscicapidae [syn: ...
Usage examples of babbler.
He was s babbler, who understood a story badly, and repeated it worse.
Paris, which is now more zealous in the study of antiquity than in the subtle investigation of truth, did English subtlety, which illumined by the lights of former times is always sending forth fresh rays of truth, produce anything to the advancement of science or the declaration of the faith, this was instantly poured still fresh into our ears, ungarbled by any babbler, unmutilated by any trifler, but passing straight from the purest of wine-presses into the vats of our memory to be clarified.
And the foulest babbler of them all, hot with the exercise of the indecent gestures wherewith he illustrated his filthy tale, had slunk off like a pariah dog.
If her gentle, questioning eyes happened to rest on him at such times, something very like a blush rose into his face, and the babbler was silenced with a terribly significant look.
The true artist knows that his hero must be a character shaping events and shaped by them, and not a babbler about literature.
Now has Bertrand made his plea and complaint to the emperor in the hearing of all, but they consider him an idle babbler because he says that he has seen the empress stark naked.
Ignorant advocates and babblers have asked, in the Club of Clichy, why we occupy the territory of Venice.
The men whom he most disliked were those whom he called babblers, who are continually prating of everything and on everything.
Constant in his hatred of deliberative assemblies, which he had often termed collections of babblers, ideologists, and phrasemongers, Napoleon, on his return to Paris, suppressed the Tribunate, which had been an annoyance to him ever since the first day of his elevation.
There are certain babblers, babblers of genius are they, who sweep up interruptions, objections, and observations in this way as they go along, by way of provision to swell the matter of their conversation, as if that source were ever in any danger of running dry.
Many of these babblers are quite huge, much bigger than your average usher.
Once marry, and you join the noble army of foot-pads, leeches, vultures, paupers, gone coons, and babblers about brats--and I disown you.
And that I am not Shahpesh I regret, So to inmesh the babbler in his net.
Many of these babblers are quite huge, much bigger than your average usher.
Once marry, and you join the noble army of foot-pads, leeches, vultures, paupers, gone coons, and babblers about brats--and I disown you.