Meaning of GABBLE
| Pronunciation: | | 'gabul
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- [n] rapid and indistinct speech
- [v] speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
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| | Synonyms: | | blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gibber, jabber, jabbering, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle |
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| | See Also: | | babble, blather, blether, blither, gibber, gibberish, mouth, smatter, speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Gab"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gabbled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Gabbling}.] [Freq. of gab. See {Gab}, v. i.]
1. To talk fast, or to talk without meaning; to prate; to
jabber. --Shak.
2. To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; as, gabbling
fowls. --Dryden.
\Gab"ble\, n.
1. Loud or rapid talk without meaning.
Forthwith a hideous gabble rises loud Among the
builders. --Milton.
2. Inarticulate sounds rapidly uttered; as of fowls.
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| | Related Terms: | | absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash, bavardage, bibble-babble, blab, blabber, blah-blah, blather, blether, blethers, blubber, bombast, bull, bullshit, cackle, call, caquet, caqueterie, carol, caw, chat, chatter, cheep, chirk, chirp, chirr, chirrup, chitter, chitter-chatter, chuck, clack, claptrap, clatter, cluck, cock-a-doodle-doo, coo, croak, cronk, crow, cuckoo, dither, double-talk, drivel, drone, droning, drool, drum, fiddledeedee, fiddle-faddle, flummery, folderol, fudge, fustian, gab, gaggle, galimatias, gammon, gas, gibber, gibbering, gibberish, gibble-gabble, go on, gobble, gobbledygook, gossip, guff, guggle, gush, haver, hocus-pocus, honk, hoo, hoot, hot air, humbug, idle talk, jabber, jargon, jaw, jibber, maunder, maundering, mere talk, mouth, mouthing, mumble, mumbling, mumbo jumbo, murmur, murmuring, mutter, muttering, narrishkeit, natter, niaiserie, nonsense, nonsense talk, pack of nonsense, palaver, patter, peep, piffle, pip, pipe, pour forth, prate, prating, prattle, prittle-prattle, quack, ramble on, rant, rattle, rattle on, reel off, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade, roll, rubbish, run on, scold, sing, skimble-skamble, sob, speak incoherently, splutter, spout, spout off, sputter, squawk, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, susurrate, susurration, talk away, talk nonsense, talk on, talkee-talkee, tittle-tattle, trash, trill, trumpery, twaddle, twattle, tweet, twiddle-twaddle, twit, twitter, vapor, vaporing, waffle, waffling, warble, whisper, whispering, whistle, yak, yakkety-yak |
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