v. Obs. To babble. [But cf. also BOBBLE, BUBBLE.] Hence Bobling ppl. a.

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c. 1530.  Barclay, Behaving in Church. These fooles … Are chatting and bobling as it were in a fayre.

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1566.  Studley, Seneca’s Agamemnon (1581), 156. There the head doth lye, With wallowing, bobling, mumbling tongue.

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