yabble

To vocalize in a meaningless or incomprehensible manner.

It's got everything : sandy beaches, where the seals bob up and yabble to you; cliffs with guillemots, kittiwakes and puffins; dozens of caves; hilltops with eagles; trees; skylarks.

Mark swears it all began at the Mayan ruins of Tikal when we ate mushrooms and sat on pyramids and yabbled with the monkeys.

To talk excessively; to babble.

. “Well, because I've never said anything of any real value in my entire life.” He smiled. “I can yabble on at the mouth, telling people how I feel, asking them how they feel, but it's just fillin' the world up with more noise.”

Let them yabble at me, if it gives them pleasure.

Meaningless vocalizations or garbled speech.

The beasts wi' joy ran headlang helter-skelter : Or hoo the folk wha built the Tower o' Babel Misun'erstood ilk ane the ither's yabble ;

They tower at the hideous shots stabbing from their well-loved pasture, and when at last they have put many yards of air between you and them they break out into that fierce wild yabble of anger and dismay.

Babbling; nonsensical talk.

Whist, billies ; cease your angry yabble, And doucely lean you o'er the table.

Those children were growing up and I told him, “Your children never will learn to talk plainly while they live over in the back lot and listen to your yabble.”

Chaotic confusion.

Another time, Tony Hooper and I crossed from Hobson's Wharf to Northcote in a fibre-glass dinghy. We met a real yabble of a sea, with waves meeting at right angles.

Able; capable.

It made a man's heart sore to see bairns wantin' schoolin' and no yabble to get it.

Yon little mowdy-warp 'd nivver be yabble tee upset me, Mr. Bevan, not if he lived to be as awd as Mac Thuselah.

well-to-do.

. We still hear of persons described as " Yabble bodies," meaning that they are well-to-do.

One of these men, a member of an old and "yabble" (well-to-do) Danby family, was, if my memory serves me rightly, the retailer of a tradition, mentioned for my instruction, that in days gone by the race was always from the churchyard gate to the bride-door, and that the prize was not barely the bride's garter, but the added privilege of taking it hemself from her leg as she crossed the threshold of her home.