[ UK /ɡˈæbə‍l/ ]
NOUN
  1. rapid and indistinct speech
VERB
  1. speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
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How To Use gabble In A Sentence

  • Squeezing her eyes so tightly shut that they looked like senile lips, Mary began to gabble.
  • The cubs who knew me were effusive in their greetings, their claws catching at my clothing as they closed around me, a gabble of voices.
  • Moreover, this would silence once and for all those gabblers who had undertaken to criticise him for what they called his inhumanity in banishing this only son when he was only trying to bring up that child in the way he should go. Kennedy Square
  • 'gabble'; he gets 'beyond drivelling' into something more like The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill
  • He gabbles to everyone in earshot about the lesson, how well it went, what the students said and did, and so on.
  • I've learned his gabble is usually honey talk but occasionally it can be coercion.
  • Just snatched from the cradle and hastily weaned, they mouth the rules of Priscian and Donatus; while still beardless boys they gabble with childish stammering the Categorics and Peri The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
  • Instead, peddling excuses as earlier clerics quoted psalms, he goes on a gabble about her ‘dignity’ - did the dead dog have a pedigree, do you think?
  • The boy gabbled off the poem as though he neither understood nor enjoyed it.
  • During the trial in the Federal courthouse in DC, the TV trucks had permanent positions on the street, and marked spots for their stand-ups to gabble into their microphones. Pinch me. « Dating Jesus
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