Characterized by or inclined toward babbling; talkative, chatty, or producing meaningless chatter.
From 'babble' plus the suffix -some, meaning 'characterized by' or 'tending to.' The -some suffix appears in words like 'troublesome,' 'lonesome,' and 'quarrelsome,' typically indicating an undesirable quality.
The suffix -some originally meant 'body' in Old English (related to 'sum'), but evolved into a quality-marker often with negative connotations—which is why 'babblesome' and 'troublesome' both sound slightly disparaging even without explicit criticism.
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