babble vs hieroglyphic

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. 

hieroglyphic

noun
  • Undecipherable handwriting or secret symbol. 

  • Any symbol used in this system; a hieroglyph. 

  • A writing system of ancient Egypt, Minoans, Maya and other civilizations, using pictorial symbols to represent individual sounds as a rebus 

adj
  • difficult to decipher 

  • of, relating to, or written with this system of symbols 

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