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单词 bibble-babble
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bibble-babblen.

/ˈbɪb(ə)lˌbab(ə)l/
Forms: Also 1500s bybell-babbel, byble-, bible-bable, bybble-babble.
Etymology: Intensive reduplication with vowel variation of babble n.: compare tittle-tattle, pit-pat, etc.
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.

Etymology: < bibble-babble n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈbibble-ˌbabble.
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).
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