babble vs gab

babble

noun
  • Idle talk; senseless prattle 

  • A sound like that of water gently flowing around obstructions. 

  • Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur. 

verb
  • To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way; to repeat words or sounds in a childish way without understanding. 

  • To reveal; to give away (a secret). 

  • To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds 

  • To talk incoherently; to utter meaningless words. 

  • To talk too much; to chatter; to prattle. 

  • To make a continuous murmuring noise, like shallow water running over stones. 

gab

noun
  • Idle chatter. 

  • The mouth or gob. 

  • One of the open-forked ends of rods controlling reversing in early steam engines. 

verb
  • To talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects. 

How often have the words babble and gab occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )