Meaning

Idle chatter..

Definitions by Sense

1. Idle chatter.
2. The mouth or gob.
3. One of the open-forked ends of rods controlling reversing in early steam engines.
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To jest; to tell lies in jest; exaggerate; lie.
5. (intransitive) To talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects.
6. (transitive, obsolete) To speak or tell falsely.

Example Sentences

Ah, find some chirk in ye, lad. Now is the time for gab and chatter. Y’best be enjoying it. Come a fortnight and the brace of us’ll be wantin’ to be ever silent as the tomb. Even to clap eyes on each other... It’ll make y’hotter than hell!

Loose eccentric reversing gear gave way about 1836 to the early forms of gab motion. [...] In 1840 Stephenson evolved a motion in which the gabs were connected directly to the valve spindle.

He would chant his own doughty deeds, and “gab,” as the Norman word was, in painful earnest, while they gabbed only in sport, and outvied each other in impossible fanfaronades”

"That Mrs. Mender gives a bloke the ear-ache; thinks a bloke's got all day to waste listening to her gab."

Word Forms

• gabs
• gabbing
• gabbed

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Use gab when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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