Babbles vs Dabbles - What's the difference?
babbles | dabbles |
(babble)
Idle talk; senseless prattle; gabble; twaddle.
* 1634 , John Milton, Comus, a Mask , line 823:
* "This is mere moral babble ."
Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur.
:* The babble of our young children. - .
A sound like that of water gently flowing around obstructions.
:* The babble of the stream. - .
To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as, a child babbles .
To talk incoherently; to utter unmeaning words.
To talk much; to chatter; to prate.
To make a continuous murmuring noise, as shallow water running over stones.
:* In every babbling brook he finds a friend. - .
To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way; to repeat, as words, in a childish way without understanding.
:* These words he used to babble in all companies. - .
To disclose by too free talk, as a secret.
(dabble)
To partially wet (something) by splashing or dipping; connotes playfulness.
To participate or have an interest in an activity, but in a casual or superficial way.
As verbs the difference between babbles and dabbles
is that babbles is third-person singular of babble while dabbles is third-person singular of dabble.babbles
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(head)babble
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* See alsoDerived terms
* astrobabble * econobabble * edu-babble * neurobabble * psychobabble * sociobabble * technobabbleSee also
* babblement * babbleryVerb
(babbl)- Hounds are said to babble,''' or to be '''babbling, when they are too noisy after having found a good scent.
dabbles
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(head)Anagrams
*dabble
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(en-verb)- The children sat on the dock and dabbled their feet in the water.
- She's an actress by trade, but has been known to dabble in poetry.
