gabble Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun rapid and indistinct speech
    jabber; jabbering.
  2. verb speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
    prate; chatter; tattle; piffle; blab; gibber; clack; tittle-tattle; prattle; maunder; palaver; blabber; twaddle.

WordNet


Gab"ble intransitive verb
Etymology
Freq. of gab. See Gab, v. i.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Gabbled ; present participle & verbal noun Gabbling
Definitions
  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 noun
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913