babbler
Someone who babbles.
Pronunciation
- IPA: [ˈbæb(ə)lə(ɹ)] · Context: UK
- Context: Southern England · Audio
Noun
- Someone who babbles.
- Great babblers, or talkers, are[…] not fit […]for trust. - 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […]
- Any of several passerine birds, of the families Leiothrichidae, Timaliidae and Paradoxornithidae (found in Asia and Africa), and Pomatostomidae (found in Australia).
- A hound who is too noisy on finding a good scent.
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Origin
From Middle English babeler, babler, equivalent to babble + -er.
Forms
Derived
Australo-Papuan babbler Bengal babbler black-browed babbler black-capped babbler glissando babbler grey-chested babbler ground babbler jewel-babbler jungle babbler psychobabbler rail-babbler scimitar babbler shrike-babbler Sikkim wedge-billed babbler striated babbler tit-babbler white-headed babbler wren-babbler yellow-eyed babbler