babble
ba buhl
- n gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby
- v utter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way
- v to talk foolishly
The two women babbled and crooned at the baby - v flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
- v divulge confidential information or secrets
- Such words babble up in all corners of society, wherever anybody is ax-grinding, arm-twisting, backscratching, sweet-talking.
- Professor Thorndike acknowledges that under his "babble-luck" system hundreds of different languages could have developed among primitive men.
- But can you decipher the techno-babble that Enterprise crew members are constantly spouting? For some help, PTI consulted Michael Okuda, one of the Star Trek technical experts:.