Babble \Bab"ble\ (b[a^]b"b'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Babbled}
   (b[a^]b"b'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Babbling}.] [Cf. LG. babbeln,
   D. babbelen, G. bappeln, bappern, F. babiller, It. babbolare;
   prob. orig., to keep saying ba, imitative of a child learning
   to talk.]
   1. To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter
      inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles.
      
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   2. To talk incoherently; to utter unmeaning words.
      
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   3. To talk much; to chatter; to prate.
      
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   4. To make a continuous murmuring noise, as shallow water
      running over stones.
      
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            In every babbling brook he finds a friend.
                                                  --Wordsworth.
      
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   Note: Hounds are said to babble, or to be babbling, when they
         are too noisy after having found a good scent.
         
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   Syn: To prate; prattle; chatter; gossip.
        
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babbling
     adj 1: talking idly or incoherently; "blithering (or blathering)
            idiot"; "jabbering children"; "gabbling housewives";
            "a babbling hospital inmate" [syn: {blathering}, {blithering},
             {jabbering}]
     2: continuous low murmuring sound; as especially of water; "a
        babbling brook"
     n : gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby [syn: {babble}, {lallation}]

51 Moby Thesaurus words for "babbling":
   arrested, backward, blithering, bubbling, burbling, crackbrained,
   cracked, crazy, cretinistic, cretinous, delirious, dithering,
   dizzy, driveling, drooling, giddy, guggling, gurgling, half-baked,
   half-witted, idiotic, imbecile, imbecilic, incoherent, lapping,
   lightheaded, maundering, mentally defective, mentally deficient,
   mentally handicapped, mentally retarded, mongoloid, moronic,
   not all there, off, plashing, rambling, ranting, raving, retarded,
   rippling, simple, simpleminded, simpletonian, slobbering, sloshing,
   splashing, subnormal, swishing, trilling, wandering