| 释义 |
yabber, n. Austral.|ˈjæbə(r)|
[‘It is pronounced by the aborigines yabba, without a final r. Ya is an aboriginal stem, meaning to speak’ (Morris Austral Eng.).]
Speech, language, talk: applied to the speech of the Australian aborigines. So ˈyabber v. (intr. and trans.), to talk, esp. in an aboriginal Australian language.
1855R. Carboni Eureka Stockade iv. 5 There was further a great waste of yabber-yabber about the diggers not being represented in the Legislative Council. 1874Beveridge Lost Life iii. 37, I marked Much yabber that I did not know. 1885Mrs. C. Praed Austral. Life 19 They yabbered unsuspiciously to each other. Ibid. 28 Longing to fire a volley of Black's yabber across a London dinner-table. 1887J. Farrell How He Died 126 He's yabbering some sort of stuff in his sleep. 1888‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms xxvii, They could speak a little Spanish and French, and got on with them. But Jim and I could only stare and stand open-mouthed..while they'd yabber away quite comfortable. |