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say it: BAB-uhl
babble is a verb and noun meaning "utter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way". It carries 5 recorded senses.
utter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way
“The old man is only babbling--don't pay attention”
divulge confidential information or secrets
“Be careful--his secretary talks”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for babble come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.