gabble

UK /ˈɡæbəl/ US /ˈɡæbəl/
verb 2noun 1

Definitions

verb

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.

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.

noun

1

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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