babble vs cluttering

babble

noun
  • Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur. 

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

  • Idle talk; senseless prattle 

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. 

cluttering

noun
  • An instance of cluttered speech. 

  • A speech disorder characterized by fast, jerky, or irregular speech, which often sounds like stuttering. 

  • The act of making, or condition of being, cluttered. 

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