Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Idle talk; prating to no purpose.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Idle talk; babble.

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  • noun Idle talk; babble.

Etymologies

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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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