noun
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a person who babbles
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any of various insect-eating birds of the Old World tropics and subtropics that have a loud incessant song: family Muscicapidae (warblers, thrushes, etc)
Etymology
Origin of babbler
Example Sentences
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Following her up I saw she had got to a nest of the Jungle Babbler and was sitting on the edge of it, but she flew away directly she saw me.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the nest I found three eggs of the Babbler and one of the Cuckoo.
From Time Magazine Archive
He produced two more tragedies, Artemire and Mariamne; a comedy, The Babbler; and prepared his world-famous Henriade.
From Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works by Foote, G. W. (George William)
All the nests which I have seen of the Large Grey Babbler have been on babool-trees.
From The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 by Hume, Allan Octavian
The Coral-billed Scimitar Babbler, according to Mr. Hodgson's notes, breeds in Sikhim, at an elevation of 5000 or 6000 feet.
From The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 by Hume, Allan Octavian
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