Crossword clues for babbled
babbled
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles.
To talk incoherently; to utter unmeaning words.
To talk much; to chatter; to prate.
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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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: babble)
Usage examples of "babbled".
If he had babbled long and loudly enough about events leading up to his landing on Mimir, and he must have, then the Veep would be expecting dull acceptance from him now.
Everyone will believe us," the male babbled on, "for she's spoken often enough of wanting to see you dead.
Cherry begged for a rest and a drink at a rill that babbled down a rocky hillside where the wood ended.
Only, they thought he had really babbled, that they knew the truth of what had happened to him here, and they did not!
Diskan had not babbled about them, thanks to the false information for which there was no sane accounting.
The words arose easily to his lips as they had when he had babbled, and Diskan let them come, content to listen himself to what might be a subtle message concealed in a spate of vague information.
Or, at least, that's what Baldwin seemed to think as he babbled confusedly about Quman soldiers searching the huge tumulus and its twisting embankments, lighting their way with torches.
Blessing babbled sweetly, smiling as soon as she saw her father's face.
Blessing babbled along enthusiastically, and although she couldn't quite clap her hands together to keep time, she waved them vigorously.
As he babbled and pranced, the designs, wild and magical animals, scenes of battle, celestial forms, began to writhe and come to life.
He babbled in a high, anxious voice, made a number of signs that looked like the kind of gestures witches made when casting protection about themselves, and became so agitated, drooling and spitting froth, that most of the men fled the tent.
Emily, as though she had not been under tiktok attack only a few moments earlier, babbled happily.
He had found the Dreamtime, the true Dreamtime, not the ghost-ridden bush of his mother's babbled tales.
James Vincent babbled, "Don't kill me, don't kill me, please, I'm really on your side--" Then he fainted.
They hee-hawed and laughed, sputtered and chattered and babbled--a dozen cracked voices assassinated "Malaguefia Salerosa," jubilantly they murdered it up to the spider-webbed rafters and well beyond.