单词 | bibble-babble |
释义 | bibble-babblen. Idle or empty talk; prating. (Very common in 16th cent.) ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > [noun] windc1290 trotevalea1300 follyc1300 jangle1340 jangleryc1374 tongue1382 fablec1384 clapa1420 babbling?c1430 clackc1440 pratinga1470 waste?a1475 clattera1500 trattle1513 babble?a1525 tattlea1529 tittle-tattlea1529 chatc1530 babblery1532 bibble-babble1532 slaverings1535 trittle-trattle1563 prate?1574 babblement1595 pribble-prabble1595 pribble1603 morologya1614 pibble-pabblea1616 sounda1616 spitter-spatter1619 argology1623 vaniloquence1623 vaniloquy1623 drivelling1637 jabberment1645 blateration1656 onology1670 whittie-whattiea1687 stultiloquence1721 claver1722 blether1786 havera1796 jaunder1796 havering1808 slaver1825 yatter1827 bugaboo1833 flapdoodle1834 bavardage1835 maunder1835 tattlement1837 slabber1840 gup1848 faddle1850 chatter1851 cock1851 drivel1852 maundering1853 drooling1854 windbaggery1859 blither1866 javer1869 mush1876 slobber1886 guff1888 squit1893 drool1900 macaroni1924 jive1928 natter1943 shtick1948 old talk1956 yack1958 yackety-yack1958 ole talk1964 Haigspeak1981 1532 T. More Confut. Barnes in Wks. (1557) 754/1 I..will cutte of all his bybell babbel. 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 48 His phantasticall bibble-bables, and capricious panges. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iv. ii. 99 Endeauour thy selfe to sleepe, and leaue thy vaine bibble babble . View more context for this quotation 1656 J. Trapp Comm. Matt. xxii. 29 [The Athenians] therefore counted all that St. Paul could say to it, bibble babble. a1701 C. Sedley tr. D. A. de Brueys & J. Palaprat Grumbler i. vii, in Wks. (1722) II. 157 Bibble babble: Give the Goose more Hay! 1866 Reader 21 Apr. 397 Terrible philippics against wit-frittering, froth-whipping, and vain bibble-babble. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). bibble-babblev. transitive and intransitive. To indulge in bibble-babble or idle talk; to babble. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > talk idly [verb (intransitive)] chattera1250 drivelc1390 clatter1401 chatc1440 smattera1450 pratec1460 blaver1461 babble?1504 blether1524 boblec1530 trattlea1555 tittle-tattle1556 fable1579 tinkle1638 whiffle1706 slaver1730 doitera1790 jaunder1808 haver1816 maunder1816 blather1825 yatter1825 blat1846 bibble-babble1888 flap-doodle1893 twiddle1893 spiel1894 rot1896 blither1903 to run off at the mouth1908 drool1923 twiddle-twaddle1925 crap1940 natter1942 yack1950 yacker1961 yacket1969 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > utter in foolish matter [verb (transitive)] trattlea1425 babblec1450 pratea1475 drivel1752 twaddle1826 maunder1834 bibble-babble1888 1888 C. M. Doughty Trav. Arabia Deserta I. 256 They all love to bibble-babble their infirmities in the wholesome ears of the hakîm. 1888 C. M. Doughty Trav. Arabia Deserta I. 596 They sat out long hours bibble-babbling. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1532v.1888 |
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