Definition

1. Verb:
   • To babble: To make continuous, soft, repetitive, and often meaningless sounds, especially as a baby or young child does when learning to talk.
   • To lisp: To speak imperfectly, pronouncing sounds like 's' and 'z' as 'th', often characteristic of a young child's speech.
   • To prattle / To chatter: To talk in a lively, simple, or childish way, often at length about unimportant things.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Đứa trẻ mới một tuổi đã bi bô vài từ. (The one-year-old child was babbling a few words.)
  • Em bé bi bô "ba ba" suốt buổi sáng. (The baby babbled "dada" all morning.)
  • Cô bé bi bô kể chuyện ở trường cho mẹ nghe. (The little girl prattled on, telling her mother about school.)

Advanced Usage

• "bi ba bi bô": An expressive reduplication of "bi bô" that emphasizes continuous, repetitive, and often incessant babbling or chattering.
  • Lũ trẻ bi ba bi bô nói chuyện cả buổi. (The children chattered and babbled for hours.)

Variants and Related Words

• Bập bẹ (v): To stammer or falter while speaking, often used synonymously with "bi bô" for a child's first attempts at speech.
  • Con tập nói bập bẹ. (The child is trying to speak, stammering.)

Synonyms

• Babble: To utter sounds or words in a gentle, meaningless, or childish stream.
• Prattle: To talk at length in a foolish or childish way.
• Chatter: To talk rapidly, incessantly, and often trivially.
• Lisp: To speak with a speech defect where 's' and 'z' are pronounced like 'th'.

Related Idioms

• Bi bô học nói: To babble while learning to speak. This phrase specifically frames the babbling as part of the language acquisition process.
  • Giai đoạn trẻ bi bô học nói rất đáng yêu. (The stage when children babble while learning to speak is very adorable.)

verb

1. To lisp
   • trẻ bi bô với mẹ
     the child lisped with its mother
   • bi ba bi bô
     to lisp incessantly