1) picking up seed
1a) of birds, especially of the crow or daw that picks up grain in fields
2) metaphorically
2a) lounging about the market place and picking up a substance by whatever may chance to fall from the loads of merchandise
2b) hence, beggarly, abject, vile, (a parasite)
2c) getting a living by flattery and bufferoonery
2d) an empty talker, babbler
Part of Speech: adjective
G4691
From G4690 and G3004; a seed picker (as the crow), that is, (figuratively) a sponger, loafer (specifically a gossip or trifler in talk): - babbler.
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a ignorant show-off | 27.19 |
b foolish babbler | 33.381 |
These two sites give similar information, with the definition from several dictionaries and statistics on the use of the word.
University of Chicago's Logion lexicon
Thayer's dictionary plus other information.
From this site's dictionary (in Italian)
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