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Babbling vs Gurgle - What's the difference?

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Babbling is a related term of gurgle.


As nouns the difference between babbling and gurgle

is that babbling is (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 while gurgle is a gurgling sound.

As verbs the difference between babbling and gurgle

is that babbling is while gurgle is to flow with a bubbling sound.

babbling

Noun

(en 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) sounds produced by infant during the babbling period
  • Verb

    (head)
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    gurgle

    English

    Verb

  • To flow with a bubbling sound.
  • The bath water gurgled down the drain.
  • * Young
  • Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace, / And waste their music on the savage race.
  • To make such a sound.
  • The baby gurgled with delight.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A gurgling sound.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
  • Then the conversation broke off, and there was little more talking, only a noise of men going backwards and forwards, and of putting down of kegs and the hollow gurgle of good liquor being poured from breakers into the casks.

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