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Gabble   Listen
verb
Gabble  v. i.  (past & past part. gabbled; pres. part. gabbling)  
1.
To talk fast, or to talk without meaning; to prate; to jabber.
2.
To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; used of fowls as well as people; as, gabbling geese.


noun
Gabble  n.  
1.
Loud or rapid talk without meaning. "Forthwith a hideous gabble rises loud Among the builders."
2.
Inarticulate sounds rapidly uttered; as of fowls.





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"Gabble" Quotes from Famous Books



... I haint no time to gabble. Mebbe I'll git a job here, 'round this yer wreck. If you want ...
— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. V, August, 1878, No 10. - Scribner's Illustrated • Various
... rainy season began, I ceased fishing and took to the gun, for now three or four kinds of duck made their appearance, and one moonlight night an immense number alighted in the creek just below the hut, and kept up an incessant gabble ...
— "Five-Head" Creek; and Fish Drugging In The Pacific - 1901 • Louis Becke
... on it got worse and worse. There wan't much comfort at home where the inventor was, so I took to stayin' out nights. Went down to the store and hung around, listenin' to fools' gabble, and wishin' I was dead. And the more I stayed out, the more Bennie D. laughed and sneered and hinted. And then come that ridic'lous business about Sarah Ann Christy. That ended ...
— The Woman-Haters • Joseph C. Lincoln
... understands me—I know them only too well. Even to endure my seriousness, my passion, he must carry intellectual integrity to the verge of hardness. He must be accustomed to living on mountain tops—and to looking upon the wretched gabble of politics and nationalism as beneath him. He must have become indifferent; he must never ask of the truth whether it brings profit to him or a fatality to him.... He must have an inclination, born of strength, for questions that no one has the courage for; the courage for the forbidden; ...
— The Antichrist • F. W. Nietzsche
... each one labelled in plain figures twenty marks. I don't pretend to speak German fluently, but I can generally make myself understood with a little effort, and gather the sense of what is said to me, provided they don't gabble. I went into the shop. A young girl came up to me; she was a pretty, quiet little soul, one might almost say, demure; not at all the sort of girl from whom you would have expected such a thing. I was never more ...
— Three Men on the Bummel • Jerome K. Jerome


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