Babble
verb
To talk quickly in a way that is difficult to understand, unclear or nonsensical.
She began to babble excitedly as soon as she saw her sister.
Often appears as...
- babble incessantly
- babble excitedly
verb
To make continuous sounds, like the water flowing over stones in a stream.
The brook babbled gently through the woodland.
Often appears as...
- brook babbles
- babble gently
Usage tips
Poetic
noun
Unimportant or silly talk or conversation.
I couldn't hear the teacher over all the babble in the classroom.
Often appears as...
- incessant babble
- excited babble
noun
The sound of water flowing over stones.
The gentle babble of the stream put me to sleep.
Often appears as...
- gentle babble
- soothing babble
Usage tips
Poetic
verb
To reveal secrets by talking carelessly or without thinking.
Don't babble our plans to everyone you meet.
Often appears as...
- babble secrets
- babble plans
verb
To talk quickly in a way that is difficult to understand, unclear or nonsensical.
She began to babble excitedly as soon as she saw her sister.
Often appears as...
- babble incessantly
- babble excitedly
verb
To make continuous sounds, like the water flowing over stones in a stream.
The brook babbled gently through the woodland.
Often appears as...
- brook babbles
- babble gently
Usage tips
Poetic
noun
Unimportant or silly talk or conversation.
I couldn't hear the teacher over all the babble in the classroom.
Often appears as...
- incessant babble
- excited babble
noun
The sound of water flowing over stones.
The gentle babble of the stream put me to sleep.
Often appears as...
- gentle babble
- soothing babble
Usage tips
Poetic
verb
To reveal secrets by talking carelessly or without thinking.
Don't babble our plans to everyone you meet.
Often appears as...
- babble secrets
- babble plans
Definition 1 of 5
Pro Tip 1/2Fast and Unclear
Used to describe speech that's hurried and hard to decode due to excitement or confusion.
Her nerves made her babble during the presentation.
Pro Tip 2/2Emotional Overload
Often happens when someone is overwhelmed with emotions like joy or fear.
Seeing the puppy, the child started to babble with joy.
Pro Tip 1/2Fast and Unclear
Used to describe speech that's hurried and hard to decode due to excitement or confusion.
Her nerves made her babble during the presentation.
Pro Tip 2/2Emotional Overload
Often happens when someone is overwhelmed with emotions like joy or fear.
Seeing the puppy, the child started to babble with joy.
Pro Tip 1/2Fast and Unclear
Used to describe speech that's hurried and hard to decode due to excitement or confusion.
Her nerves made her babble during the presentation.
Pro Tip 2/2Emotional Overload
Often happens when someone is overwhelmed with emotions like joy or fear.
Seeing the puppy, the child started to babble with joy.
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How one tweet can ruin...
was that nobody supported her -- like, everyone was against her, and that is profoundly traumatizing, to be told by tens of thousands of people that you need to get out. But if a shaming happens and there's a babble of voices, like in a democracy, where people are discussing it, I think that's much less damaging. So I think that's the way forward,
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Safari Live - Day 174 PIPE...
show you birds properly there's a couple they're all bouncing around someone has flown to the top of a of a tree I don't know if you can see it's really there we go there is a error box babble affinely but it's a silhouetted version of an era ma babbler again we will keep moving and head towards Gallagher to help find out
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Are you challenging...
and babbling something about pirates now I know that anything can happen in these races so let me recap first I am powerful when I collaborate with those around me second I can do unimaginable things when I harness innovation technology and third I'm resilient and
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Can Nature Make Us...
more attention to how the sounds of nature might be therapeutic listening to songbirds so things like blackbird robin wren here in the uk could be really important but also sounds of flowing water are really highly rated waves breaking on a beach babbling broke
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Christopher Emdin: Teach...
has to do with what she wants to do with her life, which is be an educator, change lives, and spark magic. Right now there is an aspiring teacher in a graduate school of education who is watching a professor babble on and on
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Buffalo buffalo buffalo:...
What if the bunch of bullying buffalo decides to cross the ocean? Not just on any ship, but a ship-shipping ship shipping shipping-ships? That sentence sounds just as outrageous, but there's logic to the babble.
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The tragic myth of...
Their jealousy drove them to a frenzy and they destroyed poor Orpheus. The birds, nature’s singers, mourned Orpheus, as did the rivers, who made music as they babbled. The world had lost two great souls.
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Safari Live - Day 312 PIPE...
characteristic loud babbling cackle that they do number of starlings have been flying through and I can also hear a gray headed sparrow that hi son I'm not very good at the sparrows
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The Final Jump PIPE...
so now we're gonna go with my friend babbles behind the lens right now we're gonna go look where the Reds gonna be
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Safari Live - Day 356 PIPE...
some babbles shouting that's about all
Video examples
How one tweet can ruin...
was that nobody supported her -- like, everyone was against her, and that is profoundly traumatizing, to be told by tens of thousands of people that you need to get out. But if a shaming happens and there's a babble of voices, like in a democracy, where people are discussing it, I think that's much less damaging. So I think that's the way forward,
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 174 PIPE...
show you birds properly there's a couple they're all bouncing around someone has flown to the top of a of a tree I don't know if you can see it's really there we go there is a error box babble affinely but it's a silhouetted version of an era ma babbler again we will keep moving and head towards Gallagher to help find out
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Are you challenging...
and babbling something about pirates now I know that anything can happen in these races so let me recap first I am powerful when I collaborate with those around me second I can do unimaginable things when I harness innovation technology and third I'm resilient and
Video examples
Can Nature Make Us...
more attention to how the sounds of nature might be therapeutic listening to songbirds so things like blackbird robin wren here in the uk could be really important but also sounds of flowing water are really highly rated waves breaking on a beach babbling broke
Video examples
Christopher Emdin: Teach...
has to do with what she wants to do with her life, which is be an educator, change lives, and spark magic. Right now there is an aspiring teacher in a graduate school of education who is watching a professor babble on and on
Video examples
Buffalo buffalo buffalo:...
What if the bunch of bullying buffalo decides to cross the ocean? Not just on any ship, but a ship-shipping ship shipping shipping-ships? That sentence sounds just as outrageous, but there's logic to the babble.
Video examples
The tragic myth of...
Their jealousy drove them to a frenzy and they destroyed poor Orpheus. The birds, nature’s singers, mourned Orpheus, as did the rivers, who made music as they babbled. The world had lost two great souls.
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 312 PIPE...
characteristic loud babbling cackle that they do number of starlings have been flying through and I can also hear a gray headed sparrow that hi son I'm not very good at the sparrows
Video examples
The Final Jump PIPE...
so now we're gonna go with my friend babbles behind the lens right now we're gonna go look where the Reds gonna be
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 356 PIPE...
some babbles shouting that's about all
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Quote examples
Simon McBurney
English Actor
Everyone sees something different in 'Endgame': a biblical apocalypse, a portrait of painful co-dependency, a confession of guilt and dignity in the face of death, a night of baffling hopelessness, a meaningless babble. Each interpretation reveals an absurd truth - not about the play, but about the person watching it.
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Joss Whedon
American Writer
My first gig ever was writing looplines for a movie that had already been made. You know, writing lines over somebody's back to explain something, to help make a connection, to add a joke, or to just add babble because the people are in frame and should be saying something.
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Rene Daumal
French Writer
It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.
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Anthony Bourdain
American Author
At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It's a gift.
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Charlie Brooker
English Critic
Humans will always babble. If someone wants to tweet that they can't decide whether to wear blue socks or brown socks, then fair enough. But when sharing becomes automated, I get the heebie-jeebies.
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Julia Holter
American Musician
Amidst all the internal and external babble we experience daily, it's hard to find one's foundation.
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Dan Harmon
American Writer
There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.
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John Cusack
American Actor
Usually I play people who just keep babbling on and on and on.
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Edward Young
English Poet
They only babble who practise not reflection.
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Stacy Martin
I tend to babble, which is quite bad.
Quote examples
Simon McBurney
English Actor
Everyone sees something different in 'Endgame': a biblical apocalypse, a portrait of painful co-dependency, a confession of guilt and dignity in the face of death, a night of baffling hopelessness, a meaningless babble. Each interpretation reveals an absurd truth - not about the play, but about the person watching it.
Quote examples
Joss Whedon
American Writer
My first gig ever was writing looplines for a movie that had already been made. You know, writing lines over somebody's back to explain something, to help make a connection, to add a joke, or to just add babble because the people are in frame and should be saying something.
Quote examples
Rene Daumal
French Writer
It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.
Quote examples
Anthony Bourdain
American Author
At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It's a gift.
Quote examples
Charlie Brooker
English Critic
Humans will always babble. If someone wants to tweet that they can't decide whether to wear blue socks or brown socks, then fair enough. But when sharing becomes automated, I get the heebie-jeebies.
Quote examples
Julia Holter
American Musician
Amidst all the internal and external babble we experience daily, it's hard to find one's foundation.
Quote examples
Dan Harmon
American Writer
There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.
Quote examples
John Cusack
American Actor
Usually I play people who just keep babbling on and on and on.
Quote examples
Edward Young
English Poet
They only babble who practise not reflection.
Quote examples
Stacy Martin
I tend to babble, which is quite bad.
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