(n.) An idle talker; an irrational prater; a teller of secrets.
(n.) A hound too noisy on finding a good scent.
(n.) A name given to any one of family (Timalinae) of thrushlike birds, having a chattering note.
Example Sentences:
(1) Plasmodium tenue was seen in Garrulax canorus taewanus Swinhoe, a babbler: until now it was known only from the Pekin Robin (Leiothrix luteus Scopoli), also a babbler, in which we have found it extremely common.
(2) A combination of restriction analysis and direct sequencing via the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used to build trees relating mitochondrial DNAs (mtDNAs) from 50 individuals belonging to five species of Australian babblers (Pomatostomus).
(3) The mitochondrial tree shows broad concordance with that based on hybridization of nuclear DNA; however, parsimony and maximum likelihood methods suggest a close kinship between thrushes and Australian babblers, in agreement with the traditional morphological classification.
(4) Donald Trump has done pretty well for someone ridiculed by most of the liberal media as an incoherent babbler.
Chatterbox
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The Good Life launched him on a much more varied theatre diet, including Ibsen's The Wild Duck at the Lyric, Hammersmith, in 1980; George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man (his was a richly nuanced, physical performance as the battle-weary Bluntschli) in 1981; Ray Cooney's Run for Your Wife (as a bigamous taxi driver, with Bernard Cribbins as his "cover" and apologist) in 1983; and Sir John Vanbrugh's The Relapse at Chichester in 1986, as the hilarious chatterbox Lord Foppington.
(2) I noticed things that I'd never spotted before (how did I ever miss the goose-stepping Mickey Mouse on Danny's sweater), refreshed certain cherished notions (is Wendy a traumatised extension of Shelley Duvall's chatterbox character from Altman's 3 Women?)
(3) Founder and frontman Matt Healy is a jittery, tireless chatterbox – an NME -baiter who might yet stoke up a major breakthrough for his band on quote-combustion alone.
(4) He turned suburban characters into weird chatterboxes and language into highly imaginative chop logic, and mixed a comic brew that derived more recognisably from the worlds of Lewis Carroll, WS Gilbert and the Goons, without the puerile edge that came along with Monty Python.
(5) Sarah Millican's Chatterbox DVD sold more than 150,000 copies – a record for a female comic – while Miranda Hart led the nominations at last year's British Comedy awards.