| babble | (noun) gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby | Synonyms: babbling, lallation |
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| (verb) to talk foolishly | Synonyms: blather, blether, blither, smatter |
| (verb) divulge confidential information or secrets | Synonyms: babble out, blab, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, peach, sing, spill the beans, talk, tattle |
| (verb) utter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way | - |
| (verb) flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise | Synonyms: bubble, burble, guggle, gurgle, ripple |
| babbler | (noun) any of various insectivorous Old World birds with a loud incessant song; in some classifications considered members of the family Muscicapidae | Synonyms: cackler |
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| (noun) an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker | Synonyms: chatterbox, chatterer, magpie, prater, spouter |
| bestubbled | (adjective) having a short growth of beard | Synonyms: stubbled, stubbly |
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| bobble | (noun) the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball | - |
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| (verb) make a mess of, destroy or ruin | Synonyms: ball up, blow, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil |
| brabble | (verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: bicker, niggle, pettifog, quibble, squabble |
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| bubble | (noun) a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic | - |
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| (noun) an impracticable and illusory idea | - |
| (noun) a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control | Synonyms: house of cards |
| (noun) a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide) | - |
| (verb) expel gas from the stomach | Synonyms: belch, burp, eruct |
| (verb) form, produce, or emit bubbles | - |
| (verb) cause to form bubbles | - |
| (verb) rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles | - |
| (verb) flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise | Synonyms: babble, burble, guggle, gurgle, ripple |
| bubblejet | (noun) a kind of ink-jet printer | Synonyms: bubble-jet printer, bubble jet printer |
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| bubbler | (noun) a public fountain to provide a jet of drinking water | Synonyms: drinking fountain, water fountain |
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| (noun) any of various devices in which air or some other gas is bubbled through a liquid | - |
| cobble | (noun) rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads | Synonyms: cobblestone, sett |
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| (verb) repair or mend | - |
| (verb) pave with cobblestones | Synonyms: cobblestone |
| cobbler | (noun) a pie made of fruit with rich biscuit dough usually only on top of the fruit | Synonyms: deep-dish pie |
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| (noun) tall sweetened iced drink of wine or liquor with fruit | - |
| (noun) a person who makes or repairs shoes | Synonyms: shoemaker |
| cobblers | (noun) a man's testicles | - |
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| (noun) nonsense | - |
| cobblestone | (noun) rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads | Synonyms: cobble, sett |
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| (verb) pave with cobblestones | Synonyms: cobble |
| collywobbles | (noun) severe gastroenteritis of unknown etiology; characterized by severe colic and vomiting and diarrhea | Synonyms: cholera morbus |
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| dabble | (verb) dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid | - |
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| (verb) bob forward and under so as to feed off the bottom of a body of water | - |
| (verb) play in or as if in water, as of small children | Synonyms: paddle, splash around |
| (verb) work with in an amateurish manner | Synonyms: play around, smatter |
| dabbled | (adjective) covered with bright patches (often used in combination) | Synonyms: spattered, splashed, splattered |
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| dabbler | (noun) any of numerous shallow-water ducks that feed by upending and dabbling | Synonyms: dabbling duck |
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| (noun) an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge | Synonyms: dilettante, sciolist |
| dibble | (noun) a wooden hand tool with a pointed end; used to make holes in the ground for planting seeds or bulbs | Synonyms: dibber |
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| (verb) plant with a wooden hand tool | - |
| (verb) make a hole with a wooden hand tool | - |
| dribble | (noun) the propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks | Synonyms: dribbling |
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| (noun) saliva spilling from the mouth | Synonyms: drivel, drool, slobber |
| (noun) flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid | Synonyms: drip, trickle |
| (verb) let saliva drivel from the mouth | Synonyms: drivel, drool, slabber, slaver, slobber |
| (verb) propel | Synonyms: carry |
| (verb) let or cause to fall in drops | Synonyms: drip, drop |
| (verb) run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream | Synonyms: filter, trickle |
| dribbler | (noun) a person who dribbles | Synonyms: driveller, drooler, slobberer |
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| (noun) a basketball player who is dribbling the ball to advance it | - |
| ecobabble | (noun) using the technical language of ecology to make the user seem ecologically aware | - |
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| gabble | (noun) rapid and indistinct speech | Synonyms: jabber, jabbering |
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| (verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | Synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
| gobble | (noun) the characteristic sound made by a turkey cock | - |
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| (verb) make a gurgling sound, characteristic of turkeys | - |
| (verb) eat hastily without proper chewing | Synonyms: bolt |
| gobbledygook | (noun) incomprehensible or pompous jargon of specialists | - |
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| gobbler | (noun) male turkey | Synonyms: tom, tom turkey, turkey cock |
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| (noun) a hasty eater who swallows large mouthfuls | - |
| hardscrabble | (adjective) barely satisfying a lower standard | - |
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| hobble | (noun) the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg | Synonyms: hitch, limp |
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| (noun) a shackle for the ankles or feet | Synonyms: fetter |
| (verb) strap the foreleg and hind leg together on each side (of a horse) in order to keep the legs on the same side moving in unison | Synonyms: hopple |
| (verb) walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury | Synonyms: gimp, hitch, limp |
| (verb) hamper the action or progress of | - |
| hobbledehoy | (noun) an awkward bad-mannered adolescent boy | - |
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| hobbler | (noun) someone who has a limp and walks with a hobbling gait | Synonyms: limper |
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| kibble | (noun) an iron bucket used for hoisting in wells or mining | - |
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| (noun) coarsely ground grain in the form of pellets (as for pet food) | - |
| knobble | (noun) a small knob | - |
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| nibble | (noun) gentle biting | - |
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| (noun) a small byte | Synonyms: nybble |
| (verb) eat intermittently; take small bites of | Synonyms: pick, piece |
| (verb) bite off very small pieces | - |
| (verb) bite gently | - |
| nibbler | (noun) a biter who takes dainty repeated bites | - |
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| nobble | (verb) disable by drugging | - |
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| (verb) take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom | Synonyms: abduct, kidnap, snatch |
| (verb) make off with belongings of others | Synonyms: abstract, cabbage, filch, hook, lift, pilfer, pinch, purloin, snarf, sneak, swipe |
| (verb) deprive of by deceit | Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize |
| nubble | (noun) a small lump or protuberance | Synonyms: nub |
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| nybble | (noun) a small byte | Synonyms: nibble |
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| pebble | (noun) a small smooth rounded rock | - |
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| psychobabble | (noun) using language loaded with psychological terminology | - |
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| quibble | (noun) an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections | Synonyms: cavil, quiddity |
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| (verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: bicker, brabble, niggle, pettifog, squabble |
| (verb) evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections | - |
| quibbler | (noun) a disputant who quibbles; someone who raises annoying petty objections | Synonyms: caviler, caviller, pettifogger |
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| rabble | (noun) a disorderly crowd of people | Synonyms: mob, rout |
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| (noun) disparaging terms for the common people | Synonyms: ragtag, ragtag and bobtail, riffraff |
| rubble | (noun) the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up | Synonyms: debris, detritus, dust, junk |
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| scrabble | (noun) an aimless drawing | Synonyms: doodle, scribble |
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| (verb) write down quickly without much attention to detail | Synonyms: scribble |
| (verb) feel searchingly | Synonyms: grope for |
| scribble | (noun) an aimless drawing | Synonyms: doodle, scrabble |
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| (noun) poor handwriting | Synonyms: cacography, scratch, scrawl |
| (verb) write down quickly without much attention to detail | Synonyms: scrabble |
| (verb) write carelessly | Synonyms: scrawl |
| scribbler | (noun) a writer whose handwriting is careless and hard to read | Synonyms: scrawler |
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| (noun) informal terms for journalists | Synonyms: penman, scribe |
| squabble | (noun) a quarrel about petty points | Synonyms: bicker, bickering, fuss, pettifoggery, spat, tiff |
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| (verb) argue over petty things | Synonyms: bicker, brabble, niggle, pettifog, quibble |
| squabbler | (noun) someone who quarrels about a small matter | - |
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| stubble | (noun) short stiff hairs growing on a man's face when he has not shaved for a few days | - |
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| (noun) material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds | Synonyms: chaff, husk, shuck, stalk, straw |
| stubbled | (adjective) having a short growth of beard | Synonyms: bestubbled, stubbly |
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| technobabble | (noun) technical jargon from computing and other high-tech subjects | - |
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| wobble | (noun) an unsteady rocking motion | - |
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| (verb) move unsteadily | Synonyms: coggle |
| (verb) tremble or shake | Synonyms: shimmy |
| (verb) move sideways or in an unsteady way | Synonyms: careen, shift, tilt |
| wobbler | (noun) something that wobbles | - |
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