babble
verb (used without object)
to utter sounds or words imperfectly, indistinctly, or without meaning.
babblement
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a word derived from
babble.
Example Sentences
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Too much heat and too much noise, Too much babblement of boys; Too much eating, too much drinking, Too much ev'rything but thinking; Solely bent to laugh and stuff, And trample upon base Enough.
From In The Yule-Log Glow—Book 3 Christmas Poems from 'round the World by Harrison S. (Harrison Smith) Morris
This continued until I approached the end of the glacier, when suddenly the babblement of streams, and a world of sounds to which I had been before quite deaf burst in upon me.
From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by John Tyndall
Let your conversation possess a clarified conciseness, compact comprehensiveness, coalescent consistency, and a concatenated cognancy; eschew all conglomerations of flatulent garrulity and jejune babblement.
From Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various
All sorts of babblement have been written and spoken about that wonderful fact.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 by Various
They didn't mak no babblement, but just set theirsens down on their huggans, pricked up their lugs, cocked their tails ower their rigs, and kept their een fixed on Melsh Dick.
From More Tales of the Ridings by Frederic William Moorman
