Bobulate

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To chatter or babble in a silly, meaningless way without saying anything sensible
2. Describing the act of speaking foolishly, rambling on with empty or nonsensical words
3. Talking in a muddled, pointless manner that produces only foolish noise rather than sense

Etymology: The ending is the interesting part. "-ulate" comes from Latin verbs of the "-ulare" type, which English took in words such as "undulate," from Latin "undulare," "to move in waves," built on "unda," "wave." Other verbs in this pattern, like "titillate," are older borrowings, while many later coinages use the ending freely to make verbs. The stem is "bob," an English word for a quick, jerking up-and-down movement, first recorded in Middle English. Put together, the form suggests a verb for repeated bobbing, though the exact sense of this particular word depends on how it is used.