Reverse Dictionary: BABBLE

ADJECTIVES
1583 ► BABBLATIVE ​given to babbling; talkative, loquacious, garrulous, prating 
1573 ► TWATTLING chattering, babbling, prating → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1624 ► BLACK-BABBLING babbling maliciously, slanderous 
1652 ► LINGUACIOUS babbling, talkative, loquacious, babbling → obs.
1656 ► INANILOQUENT babbling, full of empty or idle talk; talking foolishly; speaking vainly or emptily → obs.
1721 ► INANILOQUOUS babbling, full of empty or idle talk; loquacious, garrulous → obs.
1845 ► STULTILOQUENT babbling, talking foolishly; given to silly talk 
1865 ► BABBLY full of babble, chattering, prating, garrulous 
1870 ► SCLORIN babbling, chattering → Sc.
1889 ► BLITHERING babbling, senselessly talkative 
1899 ► LONG-TONGUED babbling, talkative, prating, gossiping, vindictive → Amer. dial.
1901 ► RABBIN babbling, talkative, garrulous → Sc.


NOUNS
1374 ► JANGLERY babbling; idle talk; wrangling → obs.
1532 ► BABBLERY senseless babble or prating; idle talk, chattering; a foolish tale → obs.
1592 ► HIBBER-GIBBER a confused babble or repetition of talking; unmeaning sounds or phrases; gibberish → obs.
1623 ► VANILOQUENCE vain babbling or talk (Bk.)
1639 ► TWATTLE idle talk, chatter, babble
1653 ► STULTILOQUY a speaking foolishly; a foolish babbling
1658 ► INANILOQUUTION foolish babbling; vain talk, idle speaking → obs.
1674 ► ONOLOGY vain babbling, foolish talking, a talking like an ass → obs.
1721 ► STULTILOQUENCE foolish or senseless talk, twaddle, babble
1727 ► INANILOQUENCE foolish babbling, vain talk, idle speaking → obs.
1861 ► BRABBLE discordant babble 
1866 ► TONGUE-WORK babble, chatter, gossip 
1892 ► BARBLY babble, noise  Chinese Pidgin (Bk.)
1900 ► GAREY a babble, jabbering; loud, confused talking → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1928 ► VANILOQUY vain babbling or talk (Bk.)


NOUNS, PERSON
1366 ► BABBLER a person who babbles, talks foolishly, or at great length, esp. to little purpose; a chatterer 
1374 ► BLAB a babbler, a tattler, a telltale; a revealer of secrets or of what ought to be kept private; a gossip 
1400 ► BABELAVANT → BABELAVANTE a babbler, a talker of nonsense; an absurd or foolish person → obs.
1440 ► SAUNTRELL a babbler; a term of contempt; a babbler → obs.
1552 ► CLATTERFART a babbler, a chatterer; a blabber; a tale-teller → obs.
1555 ► BABBLER a babbler, a teller of secrets; a gossip, a blabber 
1557 ► BLABBER a babbler, one who reveals secrets; a telltale 
1577 ► TWATTLER a chatterer, a babbler, a tattler → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1595 ► BABLATRICE a female babbler; a talkative person → obs.
1608 ► BABLIAMINY a babbler, a foolish or idle talker, a chatterer → obs.
1623 ► BALATRON a babbling, prating fellow; a vain talking fellow; a jester; a buffoon; a rascally base knave → obs.
1645 ► BLATEROON a senseless or foolish babbler or boaster; an idle talker → obs.
1653 ► BATTOLOGIST a vain babbler; one who needlessly repeats the same thing 
1662 ► TWITTLE-TWAT a babbler, a tattler; a chatterer; one who talks nonsense → obs.
1678 ► BABELARD a babbler; a chatterer; a talkative person → obs.
1680 ► BLADDERSKATE a babbler, a silly foolish person → Sc.
1715 ► TWATTLE-BASKET a babbler, an idle chatterer; one who does nothing but twattle 
1725 ► CLATTERN a babbler, a tattler; a gossip; a chatterer → Sc.
1746 ► WASH-MOUTH a babbler, one who blurts out anything he has heard; a foul-mouthed person → Eng. dial.
1802 ► GAFFER a babbler, a loquacious, talkative person → Sc. obs.
1814 ► MAUNDREL a babbler, a gossip → Sc.
1871 ► TONGUESTER a babbler, a chatterer; a talkative person; a gossip 
1898 ► BLETHER-LUGS a babbler, a telltale → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 ► BLETHER-TAIL a babbler, a telltale → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 ► BLETHER-TONGUE a babbler, a telltale → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1911 ► BLATHERUMSKITE a babbler; a foolish talker → Sc. (Bk.)


VERBS
1300 ► JANGLE to babble, to chatter; to talk excessively or noisily; to prate; also said of birds → obs.
1538 ► PALTER to babble, to mutter, to mumble; to speak indistinctly or idly; to say or recite in an indistinct tone → obs.
1570 ► BRABBLE to babble → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1573 ► TWATTLE to talk idly or trivially; to chatter, to babble, to tattle, to prate → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1577 ► GAGGLE to babble, to prattle; to express with gaggling or cackling → obs.
1577 ► TWITTLE to babble, to utter idly, to chatter → obs.
1623 ► DEBLATERATE to babble much, prate 
1676 ► BLATERATE to babble or talk vainly or rapidly → obs.
1721 ► HAIVER → HAVER to babble, to gossip. to talk in a foolish or trivial manner; to speak nonsense → Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
1766 ► GUFF to laugh immoderately at anything; to talk foolishly, to babble → Sc.
19C.. ► BLANDER to babble; to waste time in gossiping; to spread a report or calumny; to exaggerate or misstate → Sc.
1814 ► PLAY THE MAUNDREL to babble → Sc.
1825 ► GAFF to babble, to chatter; to talk loudly and merrily → Sc. obs.
1834 ► MUMBLE-JUMBLE to utter indistinctly and incoherently; to babble
1870 ► SCLORE to babble, to prate; to chat or talk in a long gossipy manner → Sc.
1887 ► GLAVER to babble, to chatter, to talk foolishly or heedlessly; to gossip → Sc. & Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 ► RAB to babble away; to talk nonsense → Sc.
1900 ► GAREY to babble, to talk loudly; to talk at the same time as another → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 ► MAUNDREL to babble → Sc. (Bk.)