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babbling brook
noun- a gossip, a chatty person US, 1913
- — Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner, Dictionary of American Slang, p. 11, 1960
- a cook AUSTRALIA, 1904
Rhyming slang. In early use very common among shearers, stockmen and soldiers. - No doubt about it, my Mary is a bottling babbling brook. — Duke Tritton, Learn to talk Old Jack Lang, p. 15, 1905
- “They reckon the babbling brook’s done some rissoles,” said Happy. — Lawson Glassop, We Were The Rats, p. 114, 1944
- He always referred to me as the Babbling Brook instead of cook. — Irene Staples, Cooks & Shepherds Come Away, p. 22, 1964
- a criminal AUSTRALIA, 1919
Rhyming slang for “crook”. Can be shortened to “babbler”. - — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 24, 1996
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