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noun

Babbler n.

An idle talker; an irrational prater; a teller of secrets. "Great babblers, or talkers, are not fit for trust."

A hound too noisy on finding a good scent.

(Zool.) A name given to any one of a family (Timalinae) of thrushlike birds, having a chattering note.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Babbler" Quotes from Famous Books

... with his Cyprian brother, Snatch, well mark'd With sable forehead on a coat of white: Blackcoat: and thickhair'd Shag: Worrier; and Wild,— Twins from a dam Laconian sprung, their sire Dictaean: Babbler with his noisy throat:— But all to name were endless. Urg'd by hope Of prey they crowd; down precipices rush; O'er rocks, and crags; through rugged paths, and ways Unpass'd before. His hounds he flies, where oft His hounds he ...

— The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II • Ovid

... casting in the game with such as thee. And when to-day I win thy blameless one— The smooth-limbed Damayanti—then shall be What was to be: and I can rest content, For always in my heart her beauty burns." Listening the idle talk that babbler poured, Angry Prince Nala fain had lopped away His head with vengeful khudga;[29] but, unmoved, Albeit the wrath blazed in his bloodshot eyes, He made reply: "Play! mock me not with jests; Thou wilt not ...

— Hindu Literature • Epiphanius Wilson

... "Peace, babbler! or, by Heaven! that prayer shall be your last," vociferated Wacousta. "But no," he pursued to himself, dropping at the same time the point of his upraised tomahawk; "these are but the natural writhings of the crushed worm; and the longer protracted they are, ...

— Wacousta: A Tale of the Pontiac Conspiracy (Complete) • John Richardson

... ugly mouth, you babbler.—Six children! Oh! we must make an example of this fellow. An't I the village lawyer? and an't I the terror of all the rogues of the parish? (aside to him.) You must plead ...

— The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor - Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 • Samuel James Arnold

... sides with the Athenians who called St. Paul a babbler," said Van Berg, flushing; "yet truth compels me to admit that I could worship more sincerely at the 'Alter of the unknown God,' than before any conception of Deity that modern Theology has presented to my mind. That does not prove much, ...

— A Face Illumined • E. P. Roe

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