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gabble

verb
/ˈɡæbəl/

Etymology

From gab + -le. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gabbelje (“to mock”), Dutch gabbelen (“to chatter, babble”), German Low German gabbeln (“to mock”).

  1. derived from *gʰeh₁bʰ-✻
  2. derived from *gabbōną✻
  3. derived from gabba
  4. derived from gabban
  5. derived from gabben
  6. suffixed as gabble — “gab + le”

Definitions

  1. 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.
    • Americans are always drinking in crossroads saloons on Sunday afternoon; they bring their kids; they gabble and brawl over brews; everything’s fine.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

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Derived

gabblement, gabbler, outgabble

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA