Gabble

/ˈɡæbəl/ · verb

Meaning

(ambitransitive) To talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning..

Definitions by Sense

1. (ambitransitive) To talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning.
2. To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity.
3. Confused or unintelligible speech.

Example Sentences

I pitied thee, took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour one thing or other; when thou didst not, savage, know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like a thing most brutish

Then he fell to gabbling strange and dreadful things which were not clearly understandable.

Americans are always drinking in crossroads saloons on Sunday afternoon; they bring their kids; they gabble and brawl over brews; everything’s fine.

Does she regard him simply as a workman come to do a job for her, someone whom she need never lay eyes on again; or is she gabbling to hide discomfiture?

gabbling fowls

I not to Cinna’s Ears, nor Varus dare aſpire; / But gabble like a Gooſe; amidſt the Svvan-like Quire.

a lot of gabble from witnesses

[T]he driver was delayed there by a skimpy little woman with a thin piping voice practised in the art of defeating escape from it by a ceaseless stream of gabble.

Synonyms for gabble

Antonyms for gabble

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Word Forms

• gabbles
• gabbling
• gabbled

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