3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gabble \Gab"ble\, n.
1. Loud or rapid talk without meaning.
Forthwith a hideous gabble rises loud Among the
builders. --Milton.
2. Inarticulate sounds rapidly uttered; as of fowls.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gabble \Gab"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gabbled}; p. pr & vb n.
{Gabbling}.] [Freq. of gab. See {Gab}, v. i.]
1. To talk fast or to talk without meaning; to prate; to
jabber. --Shak.
2. To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; as gabbling
fowls. --Dryden.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
gabble
n : rapid and indistinct speech [syn: {jabber}, {jabbering}]
v : speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
[syn: {chatter}, {piffle}, {palaver}, {prate}, {tittle-tattle},
{twaddle}, {clack}, {maunder}, {prattle}, {gibber}, {tattle},
{blabber}]
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