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单词 bribble-brabble
释义

bribble-brabblen.

Brit. /ˈbrɪblˌbrabl/, U.S. /ˈbrɪb(ə)lˌbræb(ə)l/
Forms: 1500s brible-brable, 1600s– bribble-brabble.
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: brabble n.
Etymology: Reduplication (with vowel variation) of brabble n. Compare earlier bibble-babble n.
Inane speech or writing; nonsense, drivel. Cf. pribble-prabble n.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > [adjective]
unthriftyc1450
bribble-brabble1573
morological1607
1573 J. Bridges Supremacie Christian Princes 38 We should see this your brible brable, to be nothing euen or correspondent to the matter, nor to your owne aduertisement.
1760 G. Colman & R. Lloyd Two Odes i. 20 That gossip Memory, Who waves her banners trim, and proudly flies To spread abroad her bribble-brabble lies.
1868 Galaxy Mar. 329 They spoke not like that sapient best, but quite their natural way. With slubberdegullion bribble-brabble, seventy pages long.
1968 Daily Mail 1 Nov. 8/1 How sad it is to hear a man of such sense talking such bribble-brabble.
2016 Express Online (Nexis) 23 Nov. Having noticed a great deal of bribble-brabble surrounding the word Brexit recently, I decided to look it up in the online Oxford English Dictionary to find out what it meant.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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