(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.
Jabberer
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Alan Johnson, who was a union general secretary himself, is right to caution that "a return of the union finger jabbers" will be bad for Labour, especially with the centrist voters in the southern half of the country who must be won back if Labour is to return to power.
(2) "I just want to make sure I got the last answer," he jabbers on.
(3) I can play ball, sweat and leave.” Two blocks away a bundled-up figure lay facing a wall, jabbering to himself in Arabic.
(4) "By GOD," Hilary gasps in episode one, possibly realising she has signed up for months of sitting in this dusty 90s hellhole with Perfect Peter Jones and know-it-all Theo having to entertain a dismal tribe of jabberers, snake-oil salesmen, "mumpreneurs" and emotionally adrift dreamers who researchers found in mid-afternoon Wetherspoons.
(5) Most recently, the multimillionaire friend of David Cameron, Jeremy Clarkson , continues to enjoy a contract funded by the public that permits him to "humorously" jabber racist rubbish at us.
(6) Detailed witness statements from the five men - Hussein Jabbari Ali, Hussain Fadhil Abass, Atiyah Sayid Abdelreza, Madhi Jassim Abdullah and Ahmad Jabber Ahmood - describe what they heard while in detention, when they said they were cuffed and forced to wear blacked-out goggles.
(7) That’s where I cut my teeth, in that independent scene full of punks and noise freaks and drag queens and experimental composers and jabbering street poets.
(8) He said it was a response to a critic who'd jabbered at him incessantly; it was interpreted as a critique of the impossibility of thought without language.
(9) Manchester City 1-1 Borussia Dortmund (Balotelli 89pen) After completely ignoring Wedienfeller jabbering in his ear as he waited to take the spot-kick, Mario Balotelli takes his run-up, stops and then waits for the goalkeeper to dive towards one corner before nonchalantly rolling the ball into the other.
(10) People are queueing all day long,” said Nuha Abdul Jabber, Oxfam’s humanitarian programme manager in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a.
(11) The inquiry was commissioned after the deaths of Baha Mousa , a hotel receptionist who died in British custody with 93 separate injuries, and 16-year-old Ahmed Jabber Kareem, who drowned after allegedly being forced to swim across a river.
(12) Just noticed Dundee United legend Ivan Golac in the Southampton team photo,” interjects Simon McMahon in the excited, jabbering fashion.
(13) I had got off a plane only the night before after a 21-hour flight and was beginning to think that I was tripping as Johan Renck and his lighting cameraman jabbered away in Swedish, discussing the complexity of the shot.
(14) Two other civilians, Ahmed Jabber Kareem and Hassan Abbad Said, are also known to have died in British military custody, or while being taken into custody.
(15) Anyway, I haven't quit the newspaper, but I have, for the meantime, stopped writing weekly, partly because my overall workload was making that kind of timetable impossible, and partly because I've recently been overwhelmed by the sheer amount of jabber in the world: a vast cloud of blah I felt I was contributing to every seven days.
(16) She begins by jabbering a bit about untimely celebrity deaths, especially those whose lives are "shadowed by dark appetites or fractured by private vice".
(17) Even at their best, Donald Trump’s tweets – disjointed, jabbering and ungrammatical as they are – have the nonsensical ring of spam email.
(18) ESPN have been on air since then and haven't stopped jabbering away for the last eight hours.
(19) It is becoming almost impossible to survive Nuha Abdul Jabber, Oxfam “There are less and less of the basic necessities.
(20) Ahmad's father, Jabber Kareem Ali, 44, wrote to the British military asking them to pursue the investigation.