ETYMOLOGY
from babble (to talk excessively, to chatter excitedly or quickly) + -ative.
EXAMPLE 1
“…Manye of them which lacke good bringing vp and haue not beene trayned in learning and ciuilitie, are of disposition, wauering, vnconstant, captious, deceitfull, falseharted, destrous of alterations and tumultes, babblatiue, and full of muche vaine tattling: in consultacion and counsell so suttle and craftie, that whatsoeuer they once conceyue in mynde or purpose to do, without delay that do they iudge best, forthwith to be enterprysed, & out of hande to be atchieued: and whereunto so euer they addict their mindes, therin proue they right excellente…”
From: The Touchstone of Complexions
By Leuine Lemnie
Translation by Thomas Newton, 1576
EXAMPLE 2
“…He could mesmerize a room full of scientists, an auditorium flush with factory workers, or a parlor pack of literati, including his salon companions Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the sharpest talkers in a smart and garrulous town. He was one of those brilliant, babblative sorts whose immense skill in their main work is nearly eclipsed by their gift for talk…”
From: Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral
By David Dobbs, 2005
PRONUNCIATION
BAB-luh-tiv
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