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Babbling
adj, noun, verb
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 That babbles.
Noun
- 1 a stage in child language acquisition, during which an infant appears to be experimenting with uttering sounds of language, but not yet producing any recognizable words uncountable
- 2 gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby wordnet
- 3 sounds produced by infant during the babbling period countable, uncountable
- 4 Idle senseless talk; prattle. countable, uncountable
- 5 A confused murmur, as of a stream. countable, uncountable
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of babble form-of, gerund, participle, present
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English bablyng, babelynge, equivalent to babble + -ing.
Etymology 2
From Middle English bablyng, babelynge, babelinde, equivalent to babble + -ing.
Etymology 3
From Middle English bablyng, babelynge, babelinde, equivalent to babble + -ing.
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