| 单词 | gabble |
| 释义 | gabble (once / 5263 pages) vn When you gabble, you talk so fast that you can barely be understood. A nervous public speaker might gabble for several minutes before she's able to get her point across. If you're gossiping about a neighbor and suddenly realize he's standing behind you, you might gabble for a while from the sheer awkwardness of the situation. Your grandmother might declare that she doesn't understand the music you like, saying, "They don't sing — they just gabble!" Gabble is a noun, too, meaning the sound itself: "See? It's all just gabble!" Gabble has a Dutch root, gabbelen, which is imitative — it sounds just like what it means. WORD FAMILYgabble: gabbled, gabbles, gabbling USAGE EXAMPLESThe other makes no truth claims but presents a great gabble of conflicting viewpoints from which we are invited to draw our own conclusions. New York Times(Aug 26, 2016) Their gabble circled the cinder-block walls and popped from the gunnery slots. Jerry Spinelli, Maniac Magee(1990) Their profound silence became broken by a conversational gabble. T. H. White, The Once and Future King(1958) 1v speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly Syn|Hypo|Hyper blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle babble, blather, blether, blither, smatter to talk foolishly mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize express in speech 2n rapid and indistinct speech Syn|Hyper jabber, jabbering gibber, gibberish unintelligible talking |
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