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babbler

American  
[bab-ler] / ˈbæb lər /

noun

  1. a person or thing that babbles.

  2. any of the birds of the family Timaliidae, many of which have a loud, babbling cry.

babbler British  
/ ˈbæblə /

noun

  1. a person who babbles

  2. any of various insect-eating birds of the Old World tropics and subtropics that have a loud incessant song: family Muscicapidae (warblers, thrushes, etc)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of babbler

First recorded in 1520–30; babble + -er 1

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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