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▪ I. gabber, n.1|ˈgæbə(r)|
Also 4–5 gabbere, 5 gabbar.
[f. gab v.1 + -er1.]
One who gabs.
†1. A mocker; a deceiver; a liar. Obs.
c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋15 He is a Iaper and a gabber, and no verray repentant, that eftsoone dooth thyng, for which hym oghte repente. c1400Mandeville (1839) xiv. 160, I schal speke a litille more of the Dyamandes..to the ende that thei that knowen hem not, be not disceyved be Gabberes [F. barratours], that gon be the Contree, that sellen hem. 1450Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 237 Gabberys gloson eny whare.
2. One who utters ‘gabs’ (see gab n.1 2).
1869T. Wright in Student II. 449 Sir Ken was celebrated as the most accomplished gabber in King Arthur's court.
▪ II. gabber, n.2|ˈgæbə(r)|
[f. gab v.2 + -er1.]
A chatterer, prater.
1793Char. in Ann. Reg. 250 My reputation of being a good gabber, that is to say, possessing a considerable share of low quaint language. 1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. xv. (1857) 339 The direction will be apparently in the hands of a few fluent gabbers.
▪ III. † ˈgabber, v. Obs.—1
[onomatopœic; cf. jabber, gibber, also gab n.2 and v.2, gabble. Du. gabberen has the same sense.]
trans. To talk volubly, to jabber.
1706–7Farquhar Beaux Strat. iii. i, He and the count's footman were gabbering French. 1808Jamieson, Gabber, to jabber, to gibber, to talk incoherently.
Hence ˈgabbering vbl. n. Also ˈgabber n., jabber.
1796Coleridge in Mrs. Sandford T. Poole & Friends (1888) I. 155 Their unmeaning gabber of flattery. 1822T. Bewick Mem. 4 The gabbering and noise they made, was enough to stun any one. |