babbling
IPA: bˈæbʌɫɪŋ
noun
- (uncountable) a stage in child language acquisition, during which an infant appears to be experimenting with uttering sounds of language, but not yet producing any recognizable words
- (countable, uncountable) sounds produced by infant during the babbling period
- (countable, uncountable) Idle senseless talk; prattle.
- (countable, uncountable) A confused murmur, as of a stream.
Examples of "babbling" in Sentences
- The song is a pleasant babbling.
- Anyhow, I'm babbling about the stuff.
- I will stop babbling and cut to the chase.
- The language that infants speak is called babbling.
- It left the page a disheveled and incoherent babbling mess.
- One of the terminologies of this behaviour is called motor babbling.