a. [f. as prec. + -Y1.] Full of babble, chattering, prating, garrulous.
1865. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., IV. XII. vii. 177. For the times are babbly [Ger. geschwätzig], says Goethe, And then again the times are dumb. Ibid. (1868), in Froudes Life (1882), I. 317. In his babbly way.