(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.
Dabbler
Definition:
(n.) One who dabbles.
(n.) One who dips slightly into anything; a superficial meddler.
Example Sentences:
(1) In an active life he was doctor, dentist, orator, editor, publisher, Harvard medical student, explorer, dabbler in Central American politics, army officer, and Reconstruction office seeker.
(2) Furthermore, these results show that little can be learned about cardiac responses in free diving ducks from studies of forced dives in dabblers or divers.
(3) On screen, after all, she has come to ennoble the dabblers.
(4) The few among them who attempt to do something in what is, after all, the history of their profession, are often considered, by historians, naive dabblers who lack knowledge and capacity for the task.
(5) An occult dabbler (“dressed in Crowley’s uniform”), Bowie clearly relished the role of “superbeing”, living on the edge, pushing himself ever harder.
(6) Born in 1714 into a well-to-do family of farmers and clergy in north Wales, Wilson trained as a portrait painter in London, but was considered to be something of a dabbler.
(7) You’ll be a dabbler.’” She shakes her head at the memory: “And if you hear a certain criticism at a certain point in your life, it sticks with you.
(8) I thought that was it, I’d for ever be a dabbler.” Is this such a bad thing?
(9) The UN's special rapporteur on housing, Raquel Rolnik, a Brazilian academic, was dubbed a "Brazil nut" and "a dabbler in witchcraft who offered an animal sacrifice to Marx" in some of Wednesday's newspapers after she had called for the bedroom tax to be abolished.
(10) Even if you did, though, you’re probably a dabbler: you have little choice.
(11) They were all romancers, metaphysicals, dabblers in literary alchemy determined to spin gossamer filigree out of the apparently unpromising stuff of American life.
(12) Diving bradycardia is driven by chemoreceptors in the dabbler and caused by stimulation of narial receptors in the diver.