Word of the Day: BAUBLING

ETYMOLOGY
from bauble (n.) + -ing

EXAMPLE (for adj. 1.)
“…euen so by the smalest booke that can be written, by ye most
babling ballet that can be made, and by the least word that can be spoken, his strange and wonderful workes in man, with his most liberall and incomparable guiftes vnto thē do as perfectly set forth and shew themselues as by the greatest volume yt euer was written, by the wayghtyest or wysest concept that euer was made, or by the most eloquente or learned oration that euer was vttered. …”

From: A Short Inuentory of Certayne Idle Inuentions
By C. Thimelthorpe, 1581

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