Inf. gab, idle or foolish talk; palaver, SI. hot air, SI. gas, SI. bull; nonsense, gibberish, jargon, gobblede-gook; jabbering, jabber, Jabberwocky; cackling, cackle, gibbering, gibber; babbling, babble, babblement, Fr. bavardage, rambling, maundering; prate, prating, tattling, tattle, twaddling, twaddle, Both Brit. twattling, twattle; pattering, patter, gabbling, gabble, blathering, blather, driveling, drivel; blab, blabbing, gushing, Inf. spouting, SI. running off or on at the mouth.
babe, n. 1. baby, infant. See baby (def. 1).
2. innocent, ingenue, greenhorn; beginner, neophyte, novice, novitiate; tyro, tenderfoot, abecedarian.
3. Slang, girl, woman, SI. looker, SI. dish.
4. babe in the woods gull, dupe, Inf. sucker; cat's-paw, simpleton.
baby, n. 1. infant, newborn, neonate, babe, It.
bambino, Fr. enfant, papoose, Scot. and North Eng. bairn; suckling, nursling, weanling; foundling, changeling; young child, toddler, tot, tiny tot, U.S. Inf. tad, pre-schooler; Disparaging, (of an adult) juvenile, adolescent.
-adj. 2. newborn, neonatal.
3. infantile, childish, babyish. See babyish.
4. Informal, small, little, tiny, Inf. teeny, All Baby Talk, teeny-weeny, teensy-weensy, teentsy, teentsy-weentsy; diminutive, wee, Inf. peewee, miniature, mini, minute, pocket, pocket-sized; bantam, undersized, midget, dwarfish.
-v. 5. pamper, pet, coddle, mollycoddle; dandle, cocker, cosset; spoon-feed, overprotect; spoil, humor, indulge, dote on. babyish, adj. infantile, childish, baby, Inf. kiddish; immature, green, callow, adolescent; puerile, jejune, silly, foolish, inane, bacchanal, n. 1. reveler, carouser, wassailer, bacchant, bacchante, maenad, Thyiad; merrymaker, party-goer, masquerader, convivialist, frolicker, SI. party girl, SI. party boy.
2. bacchanalia, orgy, saturnalia. See bacchanalia.
-adj. 3. bacchanalian, orgiastic, saturnalian. See bacchanalian. bacchanalia, n. 1. orgy, carousal, carouse, Archaic. rouse, carousing, saturnalia, Dionysia, bacchanal; debauch, spree, Inf. binge, fling, drinking bout, lost weekend, Inf. jag, Inf. toot, SI. tear, SI. bust, U.S. SI. bender; compotation, wassail.
2. revelry, reveling, revels, frolic, merrymaking, partying, party, SI. hot time, SI. bash; carnival, festival, festivity, feast; jollification, conviviality, SI. love-in,