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BABBLER

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bab⋅bler

[bab-ler]
–noun
1. a person or thing that babbles.
2. any of the birds of the family Timaliidae, many of which have a loud, babbling cry.

Origin:
1520–30; babble + -er 1
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bab·bler   (bāb'lər)   
n.  
  1. One that babbles: a babbler of half-truths.

  2. A tape recording of numerous voices talking at the same time, used as an antibugging device to hinder or prevent eavesdropping.

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