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.

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  • noun One who gabbles, or prates loquaciously on a trifling subject.

Etymologies

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gabble +‎ -er

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Examples

  • 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

  • _ Me -- a tee-talker, a green-gabbler, a prattler on the links, the lowest form of life known to science!

    The Clicking of Cuthbert 1928

  • 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

  • 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.

    Damn! A Book of Calumny 1918

  • "But I tire you," said an incessant gabbler one day to the great Duc de Broglie.

    Penguin Persons & Peppermints Walter Prichard Eaton 1917

  • 'Twas a braggart and a conceited little gabbler it was, though he considered himself a hero.

    Cabbages and Kings 1904

  • 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

  • We wait for some calloused gabbler to break the ice.

    Homeburg Memories George Fitch 1896

  • You are the dearest old gabbler possible -- but you must stop!

    God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

  • You are the dearest old gabbler possible -- but you must stop!

    God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

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