Past tense of babble; spoke rapidly, incoherently, or at great length without conveying clear meaning.
Regular past tense form of 'babble,' from Middle Dutch and possibly imitative of babies' first sounds. The simple addition of -ed follows standard English past-tense rules for regular verbs.
The word 'babble' itself might come from babies' earliest vocalizations—the ba-ba-ba-ba sounds they make—which would make it one of the oldest linguistic descriptions in English, originating from the very beginning of human speech.
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