Definitions for babbles

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babbles bab·ble

Spelling: [bab-uh l]

IPA: /ˈbæb əl/

Babbles is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 114 anagrams from letters in babbles (abbbels).

Definitions for babbles

noun

1. inarticulate or imperfect speech.
2. foolish, meaningless, or incoherent speech; prattle.
3. a murmuring sound or a confusion of sounds.
4. babbling (def 2).
5. Telecommunications. a confused mixture of extraneous sounds in a circuit, resulting from cross talk from other channels. Compare cross talk (def 1).

verb (used with object)

1. to utter in an incoherent, foolish, or meaningless fashion.
2. to reveal foolishly or thoughtlessly:

verb (used without object)

1. to utter sounds or words imperfectly, indistinctly, or without meaning.
2. to talk idly, irrationally, excessively, or foolishly; chatter or prattle.
3. to make a continuous, murmuring sound.

Origin of babbles

1200-50; Middle English babelen; cognate with Old Norse babbla, Dutch babbelen, German pappelen

Examples for babbles

Taffy Brodesser-Akner has written for the Los Angeles Times, Salon, and babble, among other publications.

They followed their aunt to the waiting cars, where a babble of greetings met them.

Donegal listened; and there was no babble of voices, and the rest of the orchestra was silent.

In fact, I described them this way myself when I wrote about infant memory two years ago for babble.

It must be awfully trying, though, not to be able to babble when you're pleased.

Thence a babble of excited voices had reached him as he approached.

There was a babble of voices from the loudspeaker, punctuated by bursts of static.

Her words, too, were incoherent, as incoherent as the babble of the children themselves.

Her work has appeared in The Boston Globe, Washington Post, Salon, and babble.

For a time Renouard, silent, as if he had not heard a word of all that babble, did not stir.