babbler

[ bab-ler ]

/ ˈbæb lər /

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noun

a person or thing that babbles.

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

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Origin of babbler

First recorded in 1520–30; babble + -er¹

Words nearby babbler

Babbage, babbitt, Babbitt metal, Babbittry, babble, babbler, babbling, babbling brook, Babcock test, babe, Bab ed-Din

How to use babbler in a sentence

Figuratively the term is used to designate an empty babbler.
Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests|J. J. von Tschudi
Pisistratus could not feel flattered by passages intended to exhibit his ancestor as a conceited and inopportune old babbler.
Homer and His Age|Andrew Lang
The eggs of this cuckoo are blue, but are distinguishable from those of the babbler by their larger size.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India|Douglas Dewar
When it sees a babbler approaching with food, the cuckoo cries out and flaps its wings vigorously.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India|Douglas Dewar

Our Yankee, like the Roman babbler, had abundance of time to discourse on fifty different subjects.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844|Various

British Dictionary definitions for babbler

babbler

/ (ˈbæblə) /

noun

a person who babbles

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

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babbler

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