[syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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2. To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; -- used of
fowls as well as people; as, gabbling geese.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Gabble \Gab"ble\, n.
1. Loud or rapid talk without meaning.
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Forthwith a hideous gabble rises loud
Among the builders. --Milton.
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2. Inarticulate sounds rapidly uttered; as of fowls.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
gabble
n 1: rapid and indistinct speech [syn: jabber, jabbering,
gabble]
v 1: speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
[syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-
tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab,
gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble]