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bibble-babble - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
noun Idle talk; prating to no purpose.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Reduplication of babble .
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Examples
Where this "Miss Trina" is getting the bibble-babble is beyond me.
ATBWT: The Black Fist Denouncements Nathaniel Livingston 2006
Why should I take your judgments on anything seriously, let alone your bibble-babble about friends of mine?
languagehat.com: ALCALAY INTERVIEW. 2005
Malvolio, Malvolio, thy wits the heavens restore! endeavour thyself to sleep, and leave thy vain bibble-babble .
Act IV. Scene II. Twelfth-Night; or, What You Will 1914
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
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
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
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
"Cease such bibble-babble , Jan. 'T is for your own good I am acting.
Janice Meredith Paul Leicester Ford 1883
(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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