▪ I. bibble-babble, n.
(ˈbɪb(ə)lˌbæb(ə)l)
Also 6 bybell-babbel, byble-, bible-bable, bybble-babble.
[Intensive reduplication of babble: cf. tittle-tattle, pit-pat, etc.]
Idle or empty talk; prating. (Very common in 16th c.)
| 1532 More Confut. Barnes viii. Wks. 754/1, I..will cutte of all his bybell babbel. 1593 G. Harvey Pierce's Super. 48 His phantasticall bible-babbles and capricious panges. 1601 Shakes. Twel. N. iv. ii. 105 Endeauour thy selfe to sleepe, and leaue thy vaine bibble babble. 1656 Trapp Comm. Matt. xxii. 29 [The Athenians] therefore counted all that St. Paul could say to it, bibble babble. 1701 Sedley Grumbler i. i. (1766) 205 Bibble babble, give the goose more hay! 1866 Reader 21 Apr. 397 Terrible philippics against wit-frittering, froth-whipping, and vain bibble-babble. |
▪ II. ˈbibble-ˌbabble, v.
[f. the n.]
trans. and intr. To indulge in bibble-babble or idle talk; to babble.
| 1888 Doughty Trav. Arabia Deserta I. 256 They all love to bibble-babble their infirmities in the wholesome ears of the hakîm. Ibid. 596 They sat out long hours bibble-babbling. |