babble vs ripple

babble

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

  • Idle talk; senseless prattle 

  • 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. 

ripple

noun
  • A sound similar to that of undulating water. 

  • A style of ice cream in which flavors have been coarsely blended together. 

  • An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc. 

  • A small oscillation of an otherwise steady signal. 

  • A moving disturbance, or undulation, in the surface of a fluid. 

verb
  • To shape into a series of ripples. 

  • To launch or unleash in rapid succession. 

  • To scratch, tear, or break slightly; graze 

  • To propagate like a moving wave. 

  • To move like the undulating surface of a body of water; to undulate. 

  • To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple. 

  • To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore. 

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