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 Rusty-cheeked Scimitar Babbler breeds from April to June in the Himalayas, at any rate from Darjeeling to the Valley of the Beas, at elevations of from 2000 to 6000 feet.
From The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 by Hume, Allan Octavian
The Yellow-eyed Babbler breeds throughout the plains of India, as also in the Nilghiris, to an elevation of 5000 feet, and in the Himalayas to perhaps 4000 feet.
From The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 by Hume, Allan Octavian
There is no figure of either the nest or eggs of the Golden-headed Babbler amongst the drawings of Mr. Hodgson that I possess.
From The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 by Hume, Allan Octavian
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