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How to pronounce babble in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms blather, blether, blither, smatter
Type of maunder, blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle
Derivation babbler, babbling


The two women babbled and crooned at the baby.
Type Words
Synonyms bubble, burble, guggle, gurgle, ripple
Type of go, sound
Verb group gurgle
Type Words
Synonyms babbling, lallation
Type of gibberish, gibber
Type Words
Synonyms babble out, blab, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, peach, sing, spill the beans, talk, tattle
Type of bring out, give away, break, disclose, discover, divulge, reveal, let out, uncover, let on, unwrap, expose
Verb group spill, talk
Type Words
Type of verbalize, speak, mouth, talk, utter, verbalise
Derivation babbler, babbling

Examples of babble

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For all the babble of clashing ideas, there's more harmony than you might think.
From the time.com
Cyberpunk from cybernetics and punk and technobabble from technology and babble.
From the en.wikipedia.org
I have to listen to commentators babble about him for another whole season now.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
Her decks brim with pristine shops and babble, burble like a jaunty airport mall.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
Secrets can lead to madness, which may be the fount of poetry or mindless babble.
From the kansas.com
They came up with a fancy bureaucratic-babble name that I have already forgotten.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
When the infant is six months it can babble the sounds of the mother language.
From the sciencedaily.com
Unlike the psycho-babble that fills much of Downton, I thought that rang true.
From the guardian.co.uk
So there is more babble, more static, and you can see this in much modern fiction.
From the sltrib.com
More examples
  • Gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby
  • Utter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way; "The old man is only babbling--don't pay attention"
  • To talk foolishly; "The two women babbled and crooned at the baby"
  • Ripple: flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise; "babbling brooks"
  • Spill the beans: divulge confidential information or secrets; "Be careful--his secretary talks"
  • Babble is the second album by Irish alternative rockers That Petrol Emotion, released in 1987. The album was re-released in 2001 with additional tracks. It was the band's only proper chart success, due to being their first and only top 40 entry at #30.
  • The Thompson Twins were a British New wave group that were formed in April 1977 and disbanded in May 1993. They achieved considerable popularity in the mid 1980s, scoring a string of hits in the UK, the US and around the globe. ...
  • Babble is a British internet telephony service. It was one of the first commercialisations of VoIP technology, appearing in 2004 approximately 6 months after the proprietary Skype opened up interest in telephony over the internet. ...
  • Babble was a game show that was produced by LWT and broadcast on Channel 4 from 1982 until 1986. The programme was hosted by Peter Purves.