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单词 gabble
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gabble
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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 FAMILY
gabble: gabbled, gabbles, gabbling
USAGE EXAMPLES
The 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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