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Gabble v. i. (past & past part. gabbled; pres. part. gabbling)

To talk fast, or to talk without meaning; to prate; to jabber.

To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; used of fowls as well as people; as, gabbling geese.

noun

Gabble n.

Loud or rapid talk without meaning. "Forthwith a hideous gabble rises loud Among the builders."

Inarticulate sounds rapidly uttered; as of fowls.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Gabble" Quotes from Famous Books

... teaches them to know their places; and, "weak masters though they be," without such guidance, yet under his ordering they become powerful, and work together as if endowed with a rational soul and a social purpose; their insane gabble turning to speech, their savage howling to music; ...

— Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. • H. N. Hudson

... Clementina, my head aches badly!" said Henrietta. She wished to rid herself of this uncalled-for gabble, in order that she might devote herself to ...

— The Poor Plutocrats • Maurus Jokai

... glad to know one person in the country who doesn't gabble his head off. You haven't answered any of my questions, and you've made me feel as if you'd found a dangerous, wild woman that morning. It isn't very flattering, but I ...

— Sawtooth Ranch • B. M. Bower

... pushed his reserve into the breach and when his gabble-gear was again disengaged resumed ...

— Can Such Things Be? • Ambrose Bierce

... Englishman mad. A Boer farmer, sitting on his stoep, large and strong, but absolutely lethargic, is the very incarnation of the spirit of the veldt. At the same time, when one remembers the clatter and gabble of our civilisation, it is impossible to deny him a certain dignity, though it may be only ...

— With Rimington • L. March Phillipps

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