Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who gabbles; a prater; a noisy, silly, or incoherent talker.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who gabbles; a prater.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
gabbles , orprates loquaciously on atrifling subject.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Amos Waughops was no match for the boy with his nimble legs, and, flushed and beaten, the gabbler hobbled back to his desk.
The Evolution of Dodd William Hawley Smith
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_ Me -- a tee-talker, a green-gabbler, a prattler on the links, the lowest form of life known to science!
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And as he smiled genially upon the cowpuncher, Bard felt a great relief sweep over him, a mighty gladness that this was not Drew -- that this looselipped gabbler was not the man who had written the epitaph over the tomb of Joan Piotto.
Trailin'! Max Brand 1918
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Christendom ever arranged a dinner party of any pretensions without including at least one intensely disagreeable person -- a vain and vapid girl, a hideous woman, a follower of baseball, a stock-broker, a veteran of some war or other, a gabbler of politics.
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"But I tire you," said an incessant gabbler one day to the great Duc de Broglie.
Penguin Persons & Peppermints Walter Prichard Eaton 1917
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'Twas a braggart and a conceited little gabbler it was, though he considered himself a hero.
Cabbages and Kings 1904
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I'm no tea drinker, no cruncher of macaroons, no gabbler at receptions, no top-hatted haunter of weddings, no social graduate of the
The Common Law 1899
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We wait for some calloused gabbler to break the ice.
Homeburg Memories George Fitch 1896
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You are the dearest old gabbler possible -- but you must stop!
God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889
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You are the dearest old gabbler possible -- but you must stop!
God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889
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