Also 6 bybell-babbel, byble-, bible-bable, bybble-babble. [Intensive reduplication of BABBLE: cf. tittle-tattle, pit-pat, etc.] Idle or empty talk; prating. (Very common in 16th c.)
1532. More, Confut. Barnes, VIII. Wks. 754/1. I … will cutte of all his bybell babbel.
1593. G. Harvey, Pierce’s Super., 48. His phantasticall bible-babbles and capricious panges.
1601. Shaks., Twel. N., IV. ii. 105. Endeauour thy selle to sleepe, and leaue thy vaine bibble babble.
1656. Trapp, Comm. Matt. xxii. 29. [The Athenians] therefore counted all that St. Paul could say to it, bibble babble.
1701. Sedley, Grumbler, I. i. Wks. II. (1776), 205. Bibble babble: Give the goose more hay!
1866. Reader, 21 April, 397. Terrible philippics against wit-frittering, froth-whipping, and vain bibble-babble.
