Pabbles vs Babbles - What's the difference?
pabbles | babbles |
(pabble)
To make the sound like liquid or porridge makes when bubbling under heat, on a stove.
*1832. J. Wilson in Blackw. Mag. XXXI. 879:
*1834. I Ibid. XXXV. 789:
*:We hear them pabbling in the pan.
(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.
As verbs the difference between pabbles and babbles
is that pabbles is third-person singular of pabble while babbles is third-person singular of babble.pabbles
English
Verb
(head)pabble
English
Verb
- The hissing, and the fizzing, and the pabbling of the great pan in which the basted trouts are writhing.
References
*OEDbabbles
English
Verb
(head)babble
English
Noun
(-)Synonyms
* 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.