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astrobabble

noun

Etymology

From astro- + babble.

  1. derived from *baba-✻
  2. derived from *bʰa-bʰa-✻
  3. inherited from *babalōną✻
  4. inherited from *bablōn✻
  5. inherited from *bæblian✻
  6. inherited from babelen
  7. prefixed as astrobabble — “astro + babble”

Definitions

  1. worthless astrological talk

    • More subtly, it kills off the very understanding that the real thing is supposed to promote and replaces it with tokens of understanding that have value only in an economy of free-floating, all-purpose astrobabble.
    • Fluent in astrobabble. Flagrantly philosophical. Fiery for redheads. Awaiting adventure. All femmes need apply.
    • Dad's astrobabble theory is annoying, but at least it does the trick. Mom lets it drop for now.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for astrobabble. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA