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View synonyms for babbler
babbler
/ ˈbæblə /
noun
- a person who babbles
- any of various insect-eating birds of the Old World tropics and subtropics that have a loud incessant song: family Muscicapidae (warblers, thrushes, etc)
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Figuratively the term is used to designate an empty babbler.
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Pisistratus could not feel flattered by passages intended to exhibit his ancestor as a conceited and inopportune old babbler.
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The eggs of this cuckoo are blue, but are distinguishable from those of the babbler by their larger size.
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When it sees a babbler approaching with food, the cuckoo cries out and flaps its wings vigorously.
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Our Yankee, like the Roman babbler, had abundance of time to discourse on fifty different subjects.
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