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.
