gabbleverb [ I or T ]
uk/ˈɡæb.əl/us/ˈɡæb.əl/mainly UKto speak quickly and not clearly so that it is difficult to understand:
She started gabbling away at me in Spanish and I didn't understand a word.
Gina, as usual, was gabbling away on the phone.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Ways of talking
- -mouthed
- babel
- blab
- blather
- declamatory
- drone
- drone on
- hold the floor idiom
- lyrical
- meanderings
- rabbit
- rabbit on
- sink to a whisper idiom
- tattle
- telegrammatic
- throw
- undertone
- waffle
- whisper
- yap
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gabblenoun [ U ]
uk/ˈɡæb.əl/us/ˈɡæb.əl/fast conversation or speech that is difficult to understand, often because many people are talking at the same time
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Ways of talking
- -mouthed
- babel
- blab
- blather
- declamatory
- drone
- drone on
- hold the floor idiom
- lyrical
- meanderings
- rabbit
- rabbit on
- sink to a whisper idiom
- tattle
- telegrammatic
- throw
- undertone
- waffle
- whisper
- yap
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