a. [f. as prec. + -Y1.] Full of babble, chattering, prating, garrulous.

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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 Froude’s Life (1882), I. 317. In his babbly way.

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