GABBLE

jabber, jabbering, gabble

(noun) rapid and indistinct speech

chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble

(verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

gabble (third-person singular simple present gabbles, present participle gabbling, simple past and past participle gabbled)

(ambitransitive) To talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning.

To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity.

Synonyms

• babble; See also prattle

Noun

gabble (uncountable)

Confused or unintelligible speech.

• G. K. Chesterton

Synonyms

• See also chatter

Source: Wiktionary

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Gab"ble, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gabbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Gabbling.] Etym: [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.

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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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