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  • verb Present participle of jabber.
  • noun Speech that jabbers; gibberish.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun rapid and indistinct speech

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Examples

  • The Monkey-man bored me, however; he assumed, on the strength of his five digits, that he was my equal, and was for ever jabbering at me, —jabbering the most arrant nonsense.

    The Reversion of the Beast Folk Herbert George 1896

  • Second, all of this "patriotic" jabbering from the likes of Cheney and Frist is so much bullshit.

    March 2006 2006

  • All of the continuous jabbering from the talking heads and other debates over their decisions is just a passing fog.

    Think Progress » Karl Rove will not be prosecuted 2006

  • My jabbering is the only thing keeping you from getting your Founder beta key.

    unknown title 2008

  • Somewhere down the road, somebody got it into their head that kids won't watch it unless the themes are saccharine, the voices high and squawky, and there just happens to be some kind of jabbering animal wandering around.

    A review for INK wendigomountain 2009

  • These natives showed no fear or surprise when once in the camp, and, examining our packs and saddles, sat "jabbering" away quite contented, until Breaden struck a match to light his pipe.

    Spinifex and Sand David Wynford Carnegie 1885

  • Everywhere he heard the same "jabbering" tongue, that Norman

    The Rival Heirs; being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune 1863

  • The noises were no longer sharp screams or hoarse coughs, but a kind of jabbering jargon, as if the apes were engaged in a family confabulation.

    The Castaways Mayne Reid 1850

  • It just so happens Pamela dear, that we live in Ajijic next to a large estate where the matron owner has had peacocks in the past and owns caged loud and obnoxious parrots constatntly jabbering

    Life on the South Side of the Lake 2009

  • It just so happens Pamela dear, that we live in Ajijic next to a large estate where the matron owner has had peacocks in the past and owns caged loud and obnoxious parrots constatntly jabbering

    Life on the South Side of the Lake 2009

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