Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Incoherent babble; jabber.

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  • verb Present participle of gabble.

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Examples

  • In times of the most solemn emotion, Hawaiians slipped into Pidgin English, gabbling sententiously, and though they found this lingo more neighborly -- more tragic for its realism -- it just made me smile and say, Oh, cut it out.

    Beard 2010

  • Already an excited voice was gabbling from the telescreen, but even as it started it was almost drowned by a roar of cheering from outside.

    Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949

  • The Conservatives rejoiced in this, seeming to think that the only real evil under which the country was suffering was the 'gabbling' of the members of the diet.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • The four astronauts spent that time gabbling at one another in a controlled and even manner, running through checklists and reading out numbers from various screens.

    speculative fiction with a humorous slant! 2009

  • The four astronauts spent that time gabbling at one another in a controlled and even manner, running through checklists and reading out numbers from various screens.

    First Words 2009

  • I thought of my friend Maria and her gabbling, squabbling family.

    The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011

  • I thought of my friend Maria and her gabbling, squabbling family.

    The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011

  • I laughed so much with both surprise and delight that I gladly relinquished the bread to gabbling beaks and they went on their way to steam-roller another 'insouciant' picnicker.

    ame soeur - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • This goes down as one of the great European evenings in Tottenham's history, yet the crowd will have left gabbling as much about the prospects in nights still to come.

    Gareth Bale inspires again as Tottenham sweep aside Internazionale Kevin McCarra at White Hart Lane 2010

  • But Anderson did not just use it, he had it talking, gabbling away, a ball with verbal diarrhoea.

    The Ashes 2010-11: England wrap up series win over Australia in style 2011

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