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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In the nest I found three eggs of the Babbler and one of the Cuckoo.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The Scrub Robin of the inland dry scrubs belongs to the same family as the Coachwhip Bird and the Babbler.
From An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use by Leach, John Albert
Fire and Sword are slow Engines of Destruction, in Comparison of the Babbler in the Case of the Merchant.
From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph
His nesting habits are peculiar, for he often builds in the deserted nest of a Babbler.
From An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use by Leach, John Albert
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