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Definition of gabble in English: gabbleverbˈɡab(ə)lˈɡæbəl [no object]Talk rapidly and unintelligibly. he gabbled on in a panicky way until he was dismissed Example sentencesExamples - The fact that we stopped gabbling for 15 minutes says it all, and in the intervening week I've been tempted to hop in my car and drive for an hour and a half just to check that my tastebuds weren't deceiving me.
- ‘Now it's hugely more exciting than the days of cardboard,’ he gabbled.
- Her gentle smile melted across her face like warm water washing against bare flesh and she laughed out loud, gabbling about how he shouldn't have gone to so much trouble.
- Tracy snatched at the paper at my hands, gabbling that she wanted to see it.
- The only way to memorise a book is to say it out loud to yourself, and this I did, gabbling away as children do, my real purpose concealed because nobody ever listens to what a child has to say.
- We shivered in a red sunset, listening to the cranes gabbling in their maize-field feeding grounds.
- Then the chancellor raced to the podium and started talking, or rather gabbling.
- People had been gabbling at her in some strange language that sounded like a cross between Russian and Gaelic, but slightly more confusing.
- With a track record like this, one might have expected the man in question to be a hustler, all gold bracelets and wide ties, talking percentages and gabbling conspiratorially into a mobile phone.
- ‘Not a problem,’ he gabbles, so rattled he's not noticed that the important fields are filled out in pencil.
- The crazy, steaming city swirled and blared around me, the strange language honked and gabbled.
- We spent many early evenings down at the swimming pool, paddling when the water was not deep enough for total immersion, listening to the baboons shrieking and gabbling from a nearby hill.
- Around them bustles Ceicao, an ancient village woman, who cackles and gabbles as she throws sticks and pokes the ashes of the fire, raising cinders like showers of fireworks.
- ‘I love Christmas and not just because it makes me money,’ he gabbles.
- Five boys started gabbling at him at the same time, all trying to convince him that they were blameless with different varieties of the same excuse.
- They started gabbling in some foreign eastern European tongue and shot me intermittent daggers from their steely blue eyes.
- One evening, during dinner, a boy ran into our kitchen, gabbling breathlessly that a tiger had entered the cowshed and killed a goat.
- ‘Hello, Ty,’ she says, the bucket gently sloshing, the solid air rent by the blast of the speakers, the crowd gabbling, her unflinching eyes locked on mine.
- For the truth of things, and the profit thereof, are found rather among a few folk who are wise and reasonable than among the multitude, where every man cries and gabbles as he likes.
- He gabbles to everyone in earshot about the lesson, how well it went, what the students said and did, and so on.
Synonyms jabber, babble, prattle, rattle, blabber, gibber, cackle, blab, drivel, twitter, splutter talk rapidly, talk incoherently, talk unintelligibly British informal waffle, chunter, witter
nounˈɡab(ə)lˈɡæbəl mass nounRapid unintelligible talk. she wasn't very good at the random gabble of teenagers Example sentencesExamples - Their excited gabble came so fast I was swamped, unable to follow them.
- English - stretched and pummelled by a tireless gabble of journos, admen, rappers, surfers, druggies, cops, criminals, geeks and gurus - carries on growing and dominating the global tongue.
- There was some tired bureaucratic gabble - ‘An in-depth process that includes accountability will provide progress.’
- Instead, peddling excuses as earlier clerics quoted psalms, he goes on a gabble about her ‘dignity’ - did the dead dog have a pedigree, do you think?
- If he's on the tube we can just mute the gabble and marvel at his wonderful face instead.
- Their gabble clouded my mind and it was difficult to concentrate on my work.
- The cubs who knew me were effusive in their greetings, their claws catching at my clothing as they closed around me, a gabble of voices.
- Otherwise what are you going to do with the magic, just treat it like a little parlour game for the rest of your life and gabble about it on the net afterwards?
- It always frustrates me when Ministers come down to the House and gabble through a speech written by someone else when they introduce a bill, and clearly do not have the faintest notion what the bill is doing or what it is about.
- I've learned his gabble is usually honey talk but occasionally it can be coercion.
- Another personality was Harry Hemsley, who had a little boy who spoke in an unintelligible gabble, but was understood perfectly well by his elder sister.
- It doesn't turn anthropology or the story of human evolution on its head, a piece of science-correspondent gabble I think I heard during my goggle-eyed, gobsmacked, yelping look at yesterday evening's TV news.
- Hens and roosters, showing off their gilded feathers, gabble under my window,
- There was a furious gabble of ‘right away milady!’
- Every single person in the auditorium broke into a confused gabble.
- It was an absolute bullet-like, repetitive gabble.
Synonyms jabbering, babbling, chattering, gibbering, babble, chatter, rambling gibberish, drivel, twaddle, nonsense informal flannel, blah, mumbo jumbo British informal waffle, waffling, chuntering, double Dutch
Derivatives nounˈɡabləˈɡæblər I am interested in stories half-told and mistakenly heard; the sort caught in snatches from the gabblers and whisperers across the room at empty bars on Wednesday afternoons, while the decent folk are still at work in office parks and city hall. Example sentencesExamples - Whichever explanation is correct, for many years the acrimonious and endless arguments between ‘Stalinist’ and ‘Trotskyite’ gabblers provided intelligent American observers with continuous amusement.
- Straight-as-a-die on a Friday lunchtime, he is an opinionated gabbler, king of the mood swingers, rude about everyone, and quite possibly the most bombastic person in the history of the bombasticism.
- The serious and the facile, the scribblers and the gabblers, the structuralists and the screenwriters all hang in, watching those films, occasionally disputing them - but, sad to say, almost never asking an intelligent question in the press conferences.
- It becomes a hideously racist thing; used promiscuously by Black comedians, gangsta rappers, poets, street-corner gabblers and what-not, it becomes merely another colourful term in the vernacular of the ‘hood.’
Origin Late 16th century: from Dutch gabbelen, of imitative origin. Rhymes babble, bedabble, dabble, drabble, grabble, rabble, scrabble Definition of gabble in US English: gabbleverbˈɡæbəlˈɡabəl [no object]Talk rapidly and unintelligibly; utter meaningless sounds. he gabbled on in a panicky way until he was dismissed Example sentencesExamples - Her gentle smile melted across her face like warm water washing against bare flesh and she laughed out loud, gabbling about how he shouldn't have gone to so much trouble.
- Around them bustles Ceicao, an ancient village woman, who cackles and gabbles as she throws sticks and pokes the ashes of the fire, raising cinders like showers of fireworks.
- We spent many early evenings down at the swimming pool, paddling when the water was not deep enough for total immersion, listening to the baboons shrieking and gabbling from a nearby hill.
- The only way to memorise a book is to say it out loud to yourself, and this I did, gabbling away as children do, my real purpose concealed because nobody ever listens to what a child has to say.
- Five boys started gabbling at him at the same time, all trying to convince him that they were blameless with different varieties of the same excuse.
- The fact that we stopped gabbling for 15 minutes says it all, and in the intervening week I've been tempted to hop in my car and drive for an hour and a half just to check that my tastebuds weren't deceiving me.
- They started gabbling in some foreign eastern European tongue and shot me intermittent daggers from their steely blue eyes.
- ‘I love Christmas and not just because it makes me money,’ he gabbles.
- People had been gabbling at her in some strange language that sounded like a cross between Russian and Gaelic, but slightly more confusing.
- ‘Hello, Ty,’ she says, the bucket gently sloshing, the solid air rent by the blast of the speakers, the crowd gabbling, her unflinching eyes locked on mine.
- He gabbles to everyone in earshot about the lesson, how well it went, what the students said and did, and so on.
- One evening, during dinner, a boy ran into our kitchen, gabbling breathlessly that a tiger had entered the cowshed and killed a goat.
- With a track record like this, one might have expected the man in question to be a hustler, all gold bracelets and wide ties, talking percentages and gabbling conspiratorially into a mobile phone.
- We shivered in a red sunset, listening to the cranes gabbling in their maize-field feeding grounds.
- ‘Now it's hugely more exciting than the days of cardboard,’ he gabbled.
- Then the chancellor raced to the podium and started talking, or rather gabbling.
- The crazy, steaming city swirled and blared around me, the strange language honked and gabbled.
- Tracy snatched at the paper at my hands, gabbling that she wanted to see it.
- For the truth of things, and the profit thereof, are found rather among a few folk who are wise and reasonable than among the multitude, where every man cries and gabbles as he likes.
- ‘Not a problem,’ he gabbles, so rattled he's not noticed that the important fields are filled out in pencil.
Synonyms jabber, babble, prattle, rattle, blabber, gibber, cackle, blab, drivel, twitter, splutter
nounˈɡæbəlˈɡabəl Rapid unintelligible talk. Example sentencesExamples - Their excited gabble came so fast I was swamped, unable to follow them.
- Their gabble clouded my mind and it was difficult to concentrate on my work.
- Hens and roosters, showing off their gilded feathers, gabble under my window,
- It was an absolute bullet-like, repetitive gabble.
- It always frustrates me when Ministers come down to the House and gabble through a speech written by someone else when they introduce a bill, and clearly do not have the faintest notion what the bill is doing or what it is about.
- It doesn't turn anthropology or the story of human evolution on its head, a piece of science-correspondent gabble I think I heard during my goggle-eyed, gobsmacked, yelping look at yesterday evening's TV news.
- Instead, peddling excuses as earlier clerics quoted psalms, he goes on a gabble about her ‘dignity’ - did the dead dog have a pedigree, do you think?
- If he's on the tube we can just mute the gabble and marvel at his wonderful face instead.
- Otherwise what are you going to do with the magic, just treat it like a little parlour game for the rest of your life and gabble about it on the net afterwards?
- Every single person in the auditorium broke into a confused gabble.
- I've learned his gabble is usually honey talk but occasionally it can be coercion.
- English - stretched and pummelled by a tireless gabble of journos, admen, rappers, surfers, druggies, cops, criminals, geeks and gurus - carries on growing and dominating the global tongue.
- The cubs who knew me were effusive in their greetings, their claws catching at my clothing as they closed around me, a gabble of voices.
- There was a furious gabble of ‘right away milady!’
- Another personality was Harry Hemsley, who had a little boy who spoke in an unintelligible gabble, but was understood perfectly well by his elder sister.
- There was some tired bureaucratic gabble - ‘An in-depth process that includes accountability will provide progress.’
Synonyms jabbering, babbling, chattering, gibbering, babble, chatter, rambling
Origin Late 16th century: from Dutch gabbelen, of imitative origin. |