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A bird that talks constantly and still has nothing to say, like most group chats.
means A person who talks on and on, often carelessly or without much substance, and also a family of noisy, chattering birds.
from Straightforward sound-mimicry: 'babble' imitates the meaningless 'ba-ba' murmur of someone (or something) talking without real words behind it — the same instinct that gives babies their first syllables. The word surfaces in medieval English and has cousins in other European languages with the same baby-talk doubling, though no one can prove they all share a single root rather than each language independently copying the same universal sound. The bird family got the name later, simply because their constant chattering calls reminded people of nonstop human chatter.
- habitat
- dense scrub, thickets, undergrowth across Asia and Africa
- social life
- travels in noisy gossiping flocks called parties
- name origin
- named for its chattering, non-stop vocal racket
- flight skill
- weak flier, prefers hopping and scrambling through bushes