babble

verb

1. (intransitive)To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds

   “The men were babbling, so we couldn't make sense of anything.”

2. (intransitive)To talk incoherently; to utter meaningless words.
3. (intransitive)To talk too much; to chatter; to prattle.

   “She babbled on for hours about the importance of some new gadget.”

   “Radical rather than rhetorical, babble like an oracle”

4. (intransitive)To make a continuous murmuring noise, like shallow water running over stones.

   “Hounds are said to babble, or to be babbling, when they are too noisy after having found a good scent.”

   “In every babbling brook he finds a friend.”

5. (transitive)To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way; to repeat words or sounds in a childish way without understanding.

   “All this vvhile John had conn'd over ſuch a Catalogue of hard VVords, as vvere enough to conjure up the Devil; theſe he uſed to babble indifferently in all Companies, eſpecially at Coffee-houſes; ſo that his Neighbour Tradeſmen began to ſhun his Company as a Man that vvas crack'd.”

6. (transitive)To reveal; to give away (a secret).

noun

1. (uncountable, usually)Idle talk; senseless prattle.

   “This is mere moral babble.”

   “Assassin's Creed gets described as "more than a game" and "a platform for meaningful exploration and reflection wrapped in the excitement of unforgettable gameplay"—which is executive babble, let's be honest.”

2. (uncountable, usually)Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur.

   “[M]an has an instinctive tendency to speak, as we see in the babble of our young children; whilst no child has an instinctive tendency to brew, bake, or write.”

3. (uncountable, usually)A sound like that of water gently flowing around obstructions.

   “[T]he babble of the stream / Fell, and without the steady glare / Shrank the sick olive sere and small.”