Gabble

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Gabble \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.
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     2. To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; -- used of
        fowls as well as people; as, gabbling geese.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Gabble \Gab"ble\, n.
     1. Loud or rapid talk without meaning.
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              Forthwith a hideous gabble rises loud
              Among the builders.                   --Milton.
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     2. Inarticulate sounds rapidly uttered; as of fowls.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  gabble
       n : rapid and indistinct speech [syn: {jabber}, {jabbering}]
       v : speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
           [syn: {chatter}, {piffle}, {palaver}, {prate}, {tittle-tattle},
            {twaddle}, {clack}, {maunder}, {prattle}, {blab}, {gibber},
            {tattle}, {blabber}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  163 Moby Thesaurus words for "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