BABBLER • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Babbler

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/bˈæblər/ Listen

Babbler

noun

An obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker. Synonyms: chatterbox, chatterer, magpie, prater, spouter.

Any of various insectivorous Old World birds with a loud incessant song; in some classifications considered members of the family Muscicapidae. Synonym: cackler.

See images of 'Babbler'

Etymology of 'Babbler'

Share |

"Babbler" Quotes from Famous Books

... contrary, was vexed at it. His pride could not forgive me the superiority of a generous action, and I was informed his wife everywhere inveighed against me with a bitterness with which I was not in the least affected, as I knew she was known to everybody to be a noisy babbler. ...

— The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete • Jean Jacques Rousseau

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