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

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How to use babbler in a sentence

Like humans and other babblers, the behavior started early in development, a little over two weeks after the bats’ birth.
These baby greater sac-winged bats babble to learn their mating songs|Jonathan Lambert|August 19, 2021|Science News
The bats may not babble exactly like other known babblers, says Pralle Kriengwatana, a behavioral biologist at the University of Glasgow in Scotland who wasn’t involved in the study.
These baby greater sac-winged bats babble to learn their mating songs|Jonathan Lambert|August 19, 2021|Science News
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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