babbledom

Noun

Babeldom (countable and uncountable, plural Babeldoms)

1. A confused mix of voices, languages, or words and ideas.
   • Only a German hobbledehoy was coarse with me, and cursed at my aping foreign Babeldoms, and thundered out in his beery bass, " At a Tscherman mummery must the Tschennan Tscherman speak."1880, William Stigand, The Life, Work, and Opinions of Heinrich Heine, page 107
2. A state of noisy confusion and chaotic activity
   • HPSCHD is, literally, describable — six harpsichords, movie and still projections of lunar and terrestrial landscapes (courtesy of NASA), a vertiginous polyglot of quaquaversal dispersion, a Babeldom of visual and aural stimuli — but, like nearly all of Cage's work, its impact lies totally in the...1975, Music Journal - Volume 33, page 53
3. A multiplicity of mutually unintelligible languages.
   • In connection with both are night-schools for adults, which are also largely attended by Arabs, Copts, Jews, Levantines, and Europeans of almost every nationality: the waifs-and-strays of Babeldom who have no time for school-work by day, but who take industriously to it six evenings a week under...1877, James Carlile McCoan, Egypt as it is, page 221