[f. BABEL + -ISM.] Noisy confusion of speech; strange utterance.
1834. Notices of Louth, 269. Hungry critics … with their usual acrimony and Babelism.
1865. Athenæum, 15 July, 84/1. They forthwith read what is presented to them, reproducing to a nicety … all the queer Babelisms which a grave party of philologists have strained their muscles to invent.
