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  1. intransitive verb To speak rapidly or incoherently; jabber.
  2. intransitive verb To make rapid, low muttering or quacking sounds, as a goose or duck.
  3. transitive verb To utter rapidly or incoherently.
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  • Gabble, gabble, the astonishment of the dull public brain is likely to be considerable, and its ejaculations unedifying. —  The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
  • ~ / Collabora / telepathy / gabble is a git clone of telepathy-gabble. git, using the same process. —  Planet Debian
  • ( "Gooble gabble, gooble gabble - we accept you, one of us!"). —  datajunkie
  • They did not think that any practice would enable them to gabble, as everybody seemed able to gabble here. —  The Crofton Boys
  • The outcome of their gabble was that mob violence destroyed for Paris in the Bastille what London possesses in the Tower, an 'architectural document' of the highest authenticity and importance. —  France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889
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prattle ·  babble ·  gibber ·  twaddle ·  cackle ·  balderdash ·  jabber ·  gobble ·  gibberish ·  drivel ·  chatter ·  babbling

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gabble:   gabbling
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Probably frequentative of gab.

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  1. Like gabber (= Dutch gabberen), gabble, freq. of gab. Cf. the assibilated forms jabble and jabber, and cf. gibber.
  2. from gabble, v.
 

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