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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gabble.

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Examples

  • Balls won't get anywhere selling used cars - he gabbles his delirious lies - at least Brown rolls them around his mouth before spitting them out.

    A LOAD OF BALLS... 2009

  • All that somehow involved him going (INAUDIBLE) gabbles.

    CNN Transcript Dec 31, 2008 2008

  • By God's the men with gabbles are not even to blame, with the maximum minimum policy we have all been so willing to march for.

    A Golden Signature on a Death Warrant 2007

  • “Confound the knave!” exclaimed Ben Zoof; “he gabbles every tongue under the sun!”

    Off on a Comet 2003

  • The sultan, however, is steady to me, gabbles daily and hourly of his intentions; and Pangeran Usop likewise pushes on my suit with his influence, at the same time giving me this one piece of good advice, viz. that

    The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel

  • "It's meself can prache acceptably to this poor haythin, an 'it's meself, loikewise, can't sense a blissid word he gabbles."

    Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature Various

  • New Peer gets up; procession bundles back to table; here Gentleman in wig and gown gabbles something from long document.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, January 31, 1891 Various

  • The sky is overcast at times with dove-coloured clouds; the forest now gabbles, now groans in the glittering summer sunshine.

    Tales of the Wilderness Boris Pilniak 1915

  • And some thinks mebby some one has cut it down and took it away, and all gabbles to oncet.

    Danny's Own Story 1912

  • I'm not your kind: I don't let a girl like that upset me till I can't think of anything else, and go making such an ass of myself that the whole town gabbles about it.

    The Flirt 1912

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