babble

Universal Words noun, verb noun [sing.] 1 the sound of many people speaking at the same time: a babble of voices 2 talking that is confused or silly and is difficult to understand: I can't listen to his constant babble. 3 the sounds a baby makes before beginning to say actual words seealsoPSYCHOBABBLE verb 1 ~ (away / on) to talk in a quick and excited way that is difficult to understand: [V] They were all babbling away in a foreign language. * I realized I was babbling like an idiot. [also Vspeech, VN] 2 [V] to make the sound of water flowing over rocks, like a stream: a babbling brook