Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Idle talk; prating to no purpose.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Idle talk; babble.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Idle talk;
babble .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Where this "Miss Trina" is getting the bibble-babble is beyond me.
ATBWT: The Black Fist Denouncements Nathaniel Livingston 2006
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Why should I take your judgments on anything seriously, let alone your bibble-babble about friends of mine?
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Malvolio, Malvolio, thy wits the heavens restore! endeavour thyself to sleep, and leave thy vain bibble-babble.
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You shall see, mine goot sir, dat it is all one bibble-babble dat Mr. Oldenbuck says, and dat he knows no more of what he speaks than one little child.
The Antiquary 1845
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You shall see, mine goot sir, dat it is all one bibble-babble dat Mr. Oldenbuck says, and dat he knows no more of what he speaks than one little child.
The Antiquary — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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You shall see, mine goot sir, dat it is all one bibble-babble dat Mr. Oldenbuck says, and dat he knows no more of what he speaks than one little child.
The Antiquary — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801
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You shall see, mine goot sir, dat it is all one bibble-babble dat Mr. Oldenbuck says, and dat he knows no more of what he speaks than one little child.
The Antiquary 1584
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"Cease such bibble-babble, Jan. 'T is for your own good I am acting.
Janice Meredith Paul Leicester Ford 1883
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(Old Play), ‘hoddy-doddy’ (Ben Jonson); while of alliterative might be instanced these: ‘skimble-skamble’, ‘bibble-babble’ (both in
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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