Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Babbling; gossip; idle talk; chatter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Jangling.
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- noun obsolete
chatter ,gossip
Etymologies
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Examples
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See there be no entrance into princes 'courts, either of drunkennefs, ill-fpeaking, babling indifcreetly, flattery, janglery, buffoonery, and fuch other vices, which foil and fhame the reputation of men.
Antient funeral monuments, of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the islands adjacent 1767
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S. Gregory saith in his dialogues that there was a nun Sabina which held her continent of her flesh, but she eschewed not the janglery of her tongue, and she was buried in the church of S. Laurence the holy martyr, and was laid tofore the altar of the martyr, and was taken of the devils and departed and sawn asunder, and that one part was burnt, and that other part remained whole, so that on the morning the burning appeared visibly.
The Golden Legend, vol. 4 1230-1298 1900
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