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单词 yabber
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Definition of yabber in English:

yabber

verbˈjabəˈyabər
[no object]informal
  • Chatter.

    what's he yabbering about?
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Go have a look and see what he is yabbering on about here.
    • No-one has really run with the story; there's a fair bit of on-line yabbering, but strictly along partisan blog lines.
    • I had gone straight to work after school, feeling I couldn't stand having to listen to my mother yabber on about her problems with having to raise me and the baby all by herself.
    • So the house was full of hot, sweaty men - yabbering away about the cricket.
    • Instead, I'll yabber on about how I enjoyed an extremely hedonistic weekend that was so unrelenting I had to neglect writing entries here for two whole days.
    • On the train, there's an Australian woman yabbering into her mobile about her recent purchases.
    • I, alone at a table, climbed outside a bottle of zinfandel and some joyful tagliolini gratinati (I don't eat a lot of pasta but my stomach needed it) and embarrassed myself yabbering drunkenly at strangers.
    • Before I could stop myself I was yabbering on excitedly.
    • It's bad enough people yabbering on when you're in a library but when it comes to brain-bubbling, mind-twistingly awful ring tones, there should be no escape.
    • To the right of him, coming down was another man, ugly and tall, yabbering into his mobile, displaying too much gold jewellery.
    • Harold, stop yabbering before you say something you might regret.
    • Yummy mummies are still yabbering away on cellphones while jogging with luxury prams.
    • What's all this yabber, yabber, yabber for two hours every week?
    • What're yeh yabbering about now? ‘he barked from the floor.’
    • Even when he had finished his purchase, he continued yabbering away, commenting on the box of pliers she had on the counter.
    • The last girl who ranted was yabbering on about being a comfortable C and someone else told her to get implants - what is all of this competition about breast size?
    • On a bracing autumn night, consuming cold lager, watching opera in Covent Garden from a balcony bar and yabbering away in the company of Jen, Mat and Meg… life in London is good.
    • Bush keeps yabbering on about how people should donate to the Red Cross and Catholic Charities.
    • We had spent almost all night yabbering to each other.
    • Kev finished off by yabbering on about brains connecting to computers and thought-control of objects.
    Synonyms
    prattle, babble, chatter, twitter, prate, gabble, jabber, go on, run on, rattle away, rattle on, yap, jibber-jabber, patter, blether, blither, maunder, ramble, drivel
    prattle, chatter, twitter, babble, talk, prating, gabble, jabber, blether, rambling

Origin

Probably from Wuywurung (an Aboriginal language).

Rhymes

abba, blabber, dabber, grabber, jabber, stabber
 
 

Definition of yabber in US English:

yabber

verbˈyabər
[no object]informal
  • Chatter.

    what's he yabbering about?
    Example sentencesExamples
    • So the house was full of hot, sweaty men - yabbering away about the cricket.
    • Bush keeps yabbering on about how people should donate to the Red Cross and Catholic Charities.
    • Before I could stop myself I was yabbering on excitedly.
    • To the right of him, coming down was another man, ugly and tall, yabbering into his mobile, displaying too much gold jewellery.
    • What're yeh yabbering about now? ‘he barked from the floor.’
    • On the train, there's an Australian woman yabbering into her mobile about her recent purchases.
    • Harold, stop yabbering before you say something you might regret.
    • I, alone at a table, climbed outside a bottle of zinfandel and some joyful tagliolini gratinati (I don't eat a lot of pasta but my stomach needed it) and embarrassed myself yabbering drunkenly at strangers.
    • I had gone straight to work after school, feeling I couldn't stand having to listen to my mother yabber on about her problems with having to raise me and the baby all by herself.
    • Even when he had finished his purchase, he continued yabbering away, commenting on the box of pliers she had on the counter.
    • Go have a look and see what he is yabbering on about here.
    • Kev finished off by yabbering on about brains connecting to computers and thought-control of objects.
    • It's bad enough people yabbering on when you're in a library but when it comes to brain-bubbling, mind-twistingly awful ring tones, there should be no escape.
    • The last girl who ranted was yabbering on about being a comfortable C and someone else told her to get implants - what is all of this competition about breast size?
    • On a bracing autumn night, consuming cold lager, watching opera in Covent Garden from a balcony bar and yabbering away in the company of Jen, Mat and Meg… life in London is good.
    • We had spent almost all night yabbering to each other.
    • Yummy mummies are still yabbering away on cellphones while jogging with luxury prams.
    • What's all this yabber, yabber, yabber for two hours every week?
    • Instead, I'll yabber on about how I enjoyed an extremely hedonistic weekend that was so unrelenting I had to neglect writing entries here for two whole days.
    • No-one has really run with the story; there's a fair bit of on-line yabbering, but strictly along partisan blog lines.
    Synonyms
    prattle, babble, chatter, twitter, prate, gabble, jabber, go on, run on, rattle away, rattle on, yap, jibber-jabber, patter, blether, blither, maunder, ramble, drivel
    prattle, chatter, twitter, babble, talk, prating, gabble, jabber, blether, rambling

Origin

Probably from Wuywurung (an Aboriginal language).

 
 
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