babbler

Figuratively the term is used to designate an empty babbler.

Pisistratus could not feel flattered by passages intended to exhibit his ancestor as a conceited and inopportune old babbler.

The eggs of this cuckoo are blue, but are distinguishable from those of the babbler by their larger size.

When it sees a babbler approaching with food, the cuckoo cries out and flaps its wings vigorously.

Our Yankee, like the Roman babbler, had abundance of time to discourse on fifty different subjects.