babble vs rave

babble

verb
  • To talk incoherently; to utter meaningless words. 

  • 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 too much; to chatter; to prattle. 

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

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

  • Idle talk; senseless prattle 

  • Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur. 

rave

verb
  • To speak or write wildly or incoherently. 

  • To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; followed by about, of, or (formerly) on. 

  • To attend a rave (dance party). 

  • To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging. 

noun
  • An all-night dance party with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) and possibly drug use. 

  • The genres of electronic dance music usually associated with rave parties. 

  • An enthusiastic review (such as of a play). 

  • One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh. 

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