Crossword clues for babbling
babbling
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
n. 1 (context uncountable English) a stage in child language acquisition, during which an infant appears to be experimenting with uttering sounds of language, but not yet producing any recognizable words 2 (context countable English) sounds produced by infant during the babbling period vb. (present participle of babble English)
WordNet
adj: talking idly or incoherently; "blithering (or blathering) idiot"; "jabbering children"; "gabbling housewives"; "a babbling hospital inmate" [syn: blathering, blithering, jabbering]
continuous low murmuring sound; as especially of water; "a babbling brook"
n : gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby [syn: babble, lallation]
Wikipedia
Babbling is a stage in child development and a state in language acquisition during which an infant appears to be experimenting with uttering articulate sounds, but does not yet produce any recognizable words. Babbling begins shortly after birth and progresses through several stages as the infant's repertoire of sounds expands and vocalizations become more speech-like. Infants typically begin to produce recognizable words when they are around 12 months of age, though babbling may continue for some time afterward. Babbling can be seen as a precursor to language development or simply as vocal experimentation. The physical structures involved in babbling are still being developed in the first year of a child's life. This continued physical development is responsible for some of the changes in abilities and variations of sound babies can produce. Abnormal developments such as certain medical conditions, developmental delays, and hearing impairments may interfere with a child's ability to babble normally. Though there is still disagreement about the uniqueness of language to humans, babbling is not unique to the human species.
Usage examples of "babbling".
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.
Pass over Aiken and the other silver-torc prisoners, the man Raimo and the woman Sukey, their infantile mental babblings as grating as the efforts of fledgling violinists importuning the ears of a cranky virtuoso.
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.
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.
The regional manager of the JDTs began babbling frantically in the jawan language.
He had no idea what Jester was babbling about, when his thoughts were obsessed with the fact that Kylie should be stark naked by now.
He could hear the soft, babbling waters of Nocturn nearby as the edge of the lake lapped against the shore.
Annie had to call back to Dickens, obviously mortified, because Grady was still on the move, still with one thought in mind, that of getting out of Peevers Mansion before he started babbling like the idiot he thought he was.
Full of wonder, the reem listened to the wind, the lyric babbling of the water, and the plangent cries of tiny, cloistered birds.
Long before that musclebound Bael came rolling along the corridor babbling about Wulfwer, Wasp knew exactly where the tanist had gone.
They found him sitting on a heap of coins, tossing jewels in the air and laughing and babbling like an unweaned babe.