gabble

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gab·ble

 (găb′əl)
v. gab·bled, gab·bling, gab·bles
v.intr.
1. To speak rapidly or incoherently; jabber.
2. To make rapid, low muttering or quacking sounds, as a goose or duck.
v.tr.
To utter rapidly or incoherently.
n.
1. Rapid, incoherent, or meaningless speech.
2. The low muttering sound of a goose or duck.
[Probably frequentative of gab.]
gab′bler n.
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gabble

(ˈɡæbəl)
vb
1. to utter (words, etc) rapidly and indistinctly; jabber
2. (intr) (of geese and some other birds or animals) to utter rapid cackling noises
n
rapid and indistinct speech or noises
[C17: from Middle Dutch gabbelen, of imitative origin]
ˈgabbler n
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gab•ble

(ˈgæb əl)

v. -bled, -bling,
n. v.i.
1. to speak or converse rapidly and unintelligibly; jabber.
2. (of hens, geese, etc.) to cackle.
v.t.
3. to utter rapidly and unintelligibly.
n.
4. rapid, unintelligible talk.
5. any quick succession of meaningless sounds.
[1570–80; perhaps < Middle Dutch gabbelen, or expressive formation in E; see gab]
gab′bler, n.
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gabble


Past participle: gabbled
Gerund: gabbling

Imperative
gabble
gabble
Present
I gabble
you gabble
he/she/it gabbles
we gabble
you gabble
they gabble
Preterite
I gabbled
you gabbled
he/she/it gabbled
we gabbled
you gabbled
they gabbled
Present Continuous
I am gabbling
you are gabbling
he/she/it is gabbling
we are gabbling
you are gabbling
they are gabbling
Present Perfect
I have gabbled
you have gabbled
he/she/it has gabbled
we have gabbled
you have gabbled
they have gabbled
Past Continuous
I was gabbling
you were gabbling
he/she/it was gabbling
we were gabbling
you were gabbling
they were gabbling
Past Perfect
I had gabbled
you had gabbled
he/she/it had gabbled
we had gabbled
you had gabbled
they had gabbled
Future
I will gabble
you will gabble
he/she/it will gabble
we will gabble
you will gabble
they will gabble
Future Perfect
I will have gabbled
you will have gabbled
he/she/it will have gabbled
we will have gabbled
you will have gabbled
they will have gabbled
Future Continuous
I will be gabbling
you will be gabbling
he/she/it will be gabbling
we will be gabbling
you will be gabbling
they will be gabbling
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been gabbling
you have been gabbling
he/she/it has been gabbling
we have been gabbling
you have been gabbling
they have been gabbling
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been gabbling
you will have been gabbling
he/she/it will have been gabbling
we will have been gabbling
you will have been gabbling
they will have been gabbling
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been gabbling
you had been gabbling
he/she/it had been gabbling
we had been gabbling
you had been gabbling
they had been gabbling
Conditional
I would gabble
you would gabble
he/she/it would gabble
we would gabble
you would gabble
they would gabble
Past Conditional
I would have gabbled
you would have gabbled
he/she/it would have gabbled
we would have gabbled
you would have gabbled
they would have gabbled
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.gabble - rapid and indistinct speech
jabber, jabbering
gibber, gibberish - unintelligible talking
Verb1.gabble - speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantlygabble - speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
blabber, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle, gibber, blab, clack, maunder, chatter
mouth, speak, talk, verbalise, verbalize, utter - express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize"
blather, blether, blither, smatter, babble - to talk foolishly; "The two women babbled and crooned at the baby"
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gabble

verb
To talk rapidly, incoherently, or indistinctly:
babble, blather, chatter, gibber, jabber, prate, prattle.
noun
Unintelligible or foolish talk:
babble, blather, blatherskite, double talk, gibberish, jabber, jabberwocky, jargon, nonsense, prate, prattle, twaddle.
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Translations
كلام سَريع غَيْر واضِحيَتَكَلَّم بِسُرْعَه وبدون وُضوح
drmolenídrmolit
jappejappen
hadar
babbla, òvaîramálæîi, òvaîur
burbėjimasburbėtiliežuviu maltiplepėjimas
muldēšanamuldētpļāpāšanapļāpāt
çenebazlıkgevezeliksözü gevelemek

gabble

[ˈgæbl]
A. N → torrente m de palabras ininteligibles
B. VT → farfullar
C. VI → hablar atropelladamente
they were gabbling away in French → parloteaban en francés
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gabble

[ˈgæbəl] vi → bredouiller
to gabble on about sth → jacasser à propos de qch
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gabble

(Brit)
vi (person) → brabbeln (inf); (geese) → schnattern
vt poem, prayer → herunterrasseln (inf); excuse, explanation → brabbeln (inf); he gabbled out his story → er rasselte seine Geschichte herunter
n → Gebrabbel nt (inf); (of geese) → Geschnatter nt; the speaker ended in a gabble → der Redner rasselte das Ende herunter (inf)
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gabble

[ˈgæbl]
1. vt → borbottare
2. vi → farfugliare
they were gabbling away in French → chiacchieravano come macchinette in francese
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gabble

(ˈgӕbl) verb
to talk very quickly and not very clearly.
noun
fast, incoherent talk.
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Whether alone with guitar or joined by an assembly of her regular co-conspirators (including Franois & The Atlas Mountains and Sleeping States, who she also joins for their sets in a glorious musical swapping shop), her songs possess a certain fragile magnetism that can hush the gabblers in the drawing of a breath...
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(28) The bad boy Hal says he can "drink with any tinker in his own language" (1 Henry IV 2.4.20), a double allusion to the wit of those who speak well and the witlessness of "gabblers." Shakespeare's vagrants and tinkers speaking a low "rethoricke" tend to fall into the type of commoner proud of his Englishness in a putatively unified and coherent English culture.
The Arlecchino and three English tinkers

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