gabble
noun
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L321082 on Wikidata ↗verb
- chatter
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈɡæbəl/
noun
Etymology: From gab + -le. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gabbelje (“to mock”), Dutch gabbelen (“to chatter, babble”), German Low German gabbeln (“to mock”).
- Confused or unintelligible speech.
“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.”
verb
Etymology: From gab + -le. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gabbelje (“to mock”), Dutch gabbelen (“to chatter, babble”), German Low German gabbeln (“to mock”).
- To talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning.
“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.”
- To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity.
“gabbling fowls”
“I not to Cinna’s Ears, nor Varus dare aſpire; / But gabble like a Gooſe; amidſt the Svvan-like Quire.”