gabble
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈɡæbəl/
gabble (gabbles, present participle gabbling; past and past participle gabbled)
- (ambitransitive) To talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning.
- 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I, scene II :
- 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
- 2013, J. M. Coetzee, The Childhood of Jesus. Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company. chapter 16. p. 144.
- 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?
- 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I, scene II :
- To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity.
- gabbling fowls
- babble; See also Thesaurus:prattle
gabble (uncountable)
- Confused or unintelligible speech.
- G. K. Chesterton
- a lot of gabble from witnesses
- G. K. Chesterton
- See also Thesaurus:chatter
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