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gabble1 verbgabble2 noun gabblegab‧ble1 /ˈɡæbəl/ verb (past tense and past participle gabbled, present participle gabbling) [intransitive, transitive] gabble1Origin: 1500-1600 Perhaps from Middle Dutch gabbelen VERB TABLEgabble |
Present | I, you, we, they | gabble | | he, she, it | gabbles | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | gabbled | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have gabbled | | he, she, it | has gabbled | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had gabbled | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will gabble | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have gabbled |
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Present | I | am gabbling | | he, she, it | is gabbling | | you, we, they | are gabbling | Past | I, he, she, it | was gabbling | | you, we, they | were gabbling | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been gabbling | | he, she, it | has been gabbling | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been gabbling | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be gabbling | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been gabbling |
- Leila threw herself on Quincx, gabbling about what happened.
- O'Neill was gabbling and the conversation was running away like a driverless express.
- Squeezing her eyes so tightly shut that they looked like senile lips, Mary began to gabble.
- They charged into the other dressing rooms, gabbling as they started a quick change for another number.
- Very sensible of Hilda: nothing is more ridiculous than an old-age pensioner gabbling on about his or her risqué past.
to say something so quickly that people cannot hear you clearly or understand you properly: Just calm down, stop gabbling, and tell me what has happened.gabble1 verbgabble2 noun gabblegabble2 noun [singular, uncountable] - the gabble of the audience before the show
- A series of whoops came from round the pit, followed by a shout and a gabble of voices.
- Then, from a long way off, I heard a high, laughing gabble, faint and coming closer.
- When the reverberations ceased, the gabble of the audience also did.
- Words gushed out incontinently: a gabble, of which, alas, it was only too easy to make sense.
a lot of talking that is difficult to understand, especially when several people are talking at the same time SYN babble: a gabble of voices |