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gabble

 : 
Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (intransitive)
 : 
gab=ble

CIDE DICTIONARY

gabblev. i. [Freq. of gab. See Gab, v. i.].
  •  To talk fast, or to talk without meaning; to prate; to jabber.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; -- used of fowls as well as people; as, gabbling geese.  [1913 Webster]
gabblen. 
  •  Loud or rapid talk without meaning.  [1913 Webster]
    "Forthwith a hideous gabble rises loud
    Among the builders.
    "  [1913 Webster]
  •  Inarticulate sounds rapidly uttered; as of fowls.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

gabble, v. & n.
--v.
1 intr. a talk volubly or inarticulately. b read aloud too fast.
2 tr. utter too fast, esp. in reading aloud.
--n. fast unintelligible talk.

Derivative
gabbler n.
Etymology
MDu. gabbelen (imit.)

THESAURUS

gabble

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, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, 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

ROGET THESAURUS

gabble

Loquacity

N loquacity, loquaciousness, talkativeness, garrulity, multiloquence, much speaking, jaw, gabble, jabber, chatter, prate, prattle, cackle, clack, twaddle, twattle, rattle, caquet, caquetterie, blabber, bavardage, bibble-babble, gibble-gabble, small talk, fluency, flippancy, volubility, flowing, tongue, flow of words, flux de bouche, flux de mots, copia verborum, cacoethes loquendi, furor loquendi, verbosity, gift of the gab, talker, chatterer, chatterbox, babbler, rattle, ranter, sermonizer, proser, driveler, blatherskite, gossip, magpie, jay, parrot, poll, Babel, moulin a paroles, loquacious, talkative, garrulous, linguacious, multiloquous, largiloquent, chattering, chatty, declamatory, open-mouthed, fluent, voluble, glib, flippant, long tongued, long winded, trippingly on the tongue, glibly, off the reel, the tongue running fast, the tongue running loose, the tongue running on wheels, all talk and no cider, foul whisperings are abroad, what a spendthrift is he of his tongue!.

VB be loquacious, talk glibly, pour forth, patter, prate, palaver, prose, chatter, prattle, clack, jabber, jaw, blather, blatter, blether, rattle, rattle on, twaddle, twattle, babble, gabble, outtalk, talk oneself out of breath, talk oneself hoarse, expatiate, gossip, din in the ears, talk at random, talk nonsense, be hoarse with talking.


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