B babble, v. 1. gibber, SI. gibber-jabber, jargon; mutter, mumble, splutter, sputter; stammer, stutter.
2. chatter, chipper, prattle, cackle; twaddle, Brit. twattle, blather, drivel; talk nonsense, Inf. talk through one's hat; jabber, prate, bleat, Inf. gab; chitchat, chitter-chatter, chaffer, bandy words; talk idly, SI. shoot the breeze, SI. gas, SI. bull; palaver, clack, clatter, rattle, SI. run off or on at the mouth; gush, blab, Inf. spout; gossip, buzz, tell tales, repeat everything one hears; be loquacious or talkative, ramble, maunder.
3. murmur, whisper, buzz; hum, drone, purr; purl, sough, rustle.
4. blab, blurt out, let slip, reveal foolishly; tattle, tattle-tale, tell on, inform on, SI. squeal on, divulge secrets. -n. 5. gibberish, gibbering, SI. gibber-jabbering, jargon; muttering, mumbling, spluttering, sputtering; stammering, stuttering.
6. prattle, prattling, chatter, chattering, chippering, cackle, cackling; jabber, Jabberwocky, prate, prating, twaddle, twaddling, Brit, twattle, Brit, twattling; patter, pattering, gabble, gabbling, blather, blathering, drivel, driveling; nonsense, Fr. bavardage, gobblede-gook, hocus-pocus, mumbo-jumbo, abracadabra, open-sesame; humbug, flummery, SI. bunk, rubbish, Inf. rot, SI. garbage, SI. horsefeathers; balderdash, hogwash, stuff and nonsense, Inf. bosh, fudge, foolishness, rigmarole or rigamarole; poppycock, Inf. fiddlefaddle, Inf. piffle, Inf. kibosh, Inf. flapdoodle; small talk, Anglo-Indian, bukh, chit-chat, chitter-chatter; gossip, Inf. scuttlebutt, buzz, idle talk, Inf. gab, SI. bull; palaver, claptrap, SI. hot air, SI. gas.
7. murmur, murmuring, murmuration; whisper, whispering, buzz, buzzing; hum, humming, drone, droning, purr, purring; purl, purling, sough, soughing, rustle, rustling.
8. (in reference to sounds) medley, melange, mixture, muddle, confusion; cacophony, jumble, hodgepodge, disorder. babblement, n. babble, prattle, gibberish, chatter. See babble (defs. 5-7). babbler, n. prattler, prater, twaddler, Brit, twattler, driveler; patterer, patterist, rattlebrain, rattlepate; chatterbox, noisy chatterer, palaverer, magpie, popinjay, Inf. jay; excessive talker, jabberer, gabbler, blatherskite, SI. windbag, SI. windjammer, Inf. hot-air artist; blabber, blabbermouth, gusher, gossip; tattler, tattle-tale, tell-tale, tale-bearer, informer, SI. squealer, babbling, n. chatter, chattering, prattle, prattling, small talk, chit-chat, chitter-chatter; gossip, buzzing,