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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.

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)

1. to utter (words, etc) rapidly and indistinctly; jabber

2. (intr) (of geese and some other birds or animals) to utter rapid cackling noises

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.

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.

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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Noun	1.	gabble - rapid and indistinct speech jabber, jabbering gibber, gibberish - unintelligible talking
Verb	1.	gabble - 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"

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.

Translations

كلام سَريع غَيْر واضِحيَتَكَلَّم بِسُرْعَه وبدون وُضوح

drmolenídrmolit

jappejappen

Geschnatter schnattern

bredouillement bredouiller

hadar

babbla, òvaîramálæîi, òvaîur

borbottare borbottio farfugliamento farfugliare starnazzare

burbėjimasburbėtiliežuviu maltiplepėjimas

muldēšanamuldētpļāpāšanapļāpāt

plapre løs plapring snakke fort og utydelig

çenebazlıkgevezeliksözü gevelemek

急促不清地说话急促不清的话

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

[ˈgæb^əl] 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

gabble

(ˈgӕbl) verb

to talk very quickly and not very clearly.

noun

fast, incoherent talk.

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"It is a man," gabbled my conductor, "a man, a man, a five-man, like me."

A kind of rhythmic fervour fell on all of us; we gabbled and swayed faster and faster, repeating this amazing Law.

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But after I had been there half an hour I found I couldn't understand a single word of the play, they gabbled it off so fast, and they made use of such peculiar expressions.

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He can!" she gabbled over to herself under her breath as fast as ever she could.

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So they gabbled together like two old gossips and, between them, made such a tasty mess that Robin Hood and his stout followers were like never to leave off eating.

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Freddy gabbled the grace, and they drew up their heavy chairs and fell to.

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Twanged at it anyhow, and grinned and gabbled to himself.

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The gabbled speech on the steps of Downing Street - by one of the most preposterous of Prime Ministers - was more Popeye than Pericles.

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IT was my great misfortune to sit on a train to London alongside three young friends who gabbled for each and every of the 90 minutes the journey took.

It's, like, not really awesome, is it, guys?

In place of the period-instrument Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, this year the London Philharmonic was in the pit, and a gabbled overture proved immediately it was: less suited to breakneck tempos.

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She mentioned once or twice a boyfriend who stays with her infrequently and seems often to head off to someone referred to as his 'babymom' - which people far more streetwise than I inform me is a hideously 'She and gabbled took no her young he sought attention...' functional term that describes the mother of his child.

Too apathetic to notice

(For the uninitiated, Mandy is a man.) And Claire Danes is considerably less sweet here than she was with Leonardo DiCaprio in Romeo + Juliet, over-acting her way through a bipolar episode which seems to make her alliterate all of her gabbled sentences.