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Babbler   /bˈæblər/   Listen
Babbler

noun
1.
An obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker.  Synonyms: chatterbox, chatterer, magpie, prater, spouter.
2.
Any of various insectivorous Old World birds with a loud incessant song; in some classifications considered members of the family Muscicapidae.  Synonym: cackler.






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"Babbler" Quotes from Famous Books



... who looked dubiously at the doctrine of innate ideas, and were divided in opinion as to whether their mythology was a shrewd device of legislators to keep the populace in subjection, a veiled natural philosophy, or the celestial reflex of their own history, mocked at such a babbler and went their ways. The generations of philosophers that followed them partook of their doubts and approved their opinions, quite down to our own times. But now, after weighing the question maturely, we are compelled to admit that the Apostle ...
— The Myths of the New World - A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America • Daniel G. Brinton

... in Milk Punch, and yet destroy, or disengage, the deleterious elements. Will you so greatly honour science, and Fosco her servant, as to sup with me on the night of the twenty-fifth, at nine o'clock, and prove (you need not dread the test) whether a true follower of knowledge or a vain babbler signs—in exile—the ...
— Old Friends - Essays in Epistolary Parody • Andrew Lang

... had sprung out of. That he was a wine-bibler and gross liver; gluttonously fond of whatever would yield him a little solacement, were it only of a stomachic character, is undeniable enough. That he was vain, heedless, a babbler; had much of the sycophant, alternating with the braggadocio, curiously spiced too with an all-pervading dash of the coxcomb; that he gloried much when the Tailor, by a court-suit, had made a new man of him; that he appeared at the Shakespeare Jubilee ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III • Various

... my reforming you! (I said). How could I with any show of justice hope to reform you, the perfect model [2] of a beautiful, good man—I, who am but an empty babbler, [3] and measurer of the air, [4] who have to bear besides that most senseless imputation of being poor—an imputation which, I assure you, Ischomachus, would have reduced me to the veriest despair, except that the other day I chanced to come across the ...
— The Economist • Xenophon

... drink, shouting without ceasing his orders and observations. He is always with us, though not always as noisy as in the prime of the year—a cheerful, prying, frisky creature, always going somewhere or doing something in a red-hot hurry, and always making a song of it—a veritable babbler. His love-making is passionate and ...
— The Confessions of a Beachcomber • E J Banfield



Words linked to "Babbler" :   utterer, babble, talker, genus Timalia, oscine, verbaliser, speaker, oscine bird, Timalia, verbalizer



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