jabber

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If they can just keep the discussion focused on childish jibber-jabber, they might stand a chance of picking up 1 seat in Congress come midterms, and a complete surrender of personal integrity is apparently not too high a price to pay for that one seat.

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  1. intransitive verb To talk rapidly, unintelligibly, or idly.
  2. transitive verb To utter rapidly or unintelligibly.
  3. noun Rapid or babbling talk.

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  • But demons jabber, and the shadowy figures spoke, in a mixture of Dutch and English. —  Hard Rain - Janwillem van de Wetering - Grijpstra-de Gier 11
  • This jabber was a combination of French, English, bush African, and Spanish, all intermingled so as to be unrecognizable The ugly little men seemed to be as polyglot a breed as their lingo An expert on languages would have explained that they were a strange and little-known class of humans who have come into existence deep within the Southern swamps. —  003 - Quest of the Spider
  • But sitting here listening to all this gibber-jabber, it struck me that if you ink up Sheriff Finn's hands, you're liable to find some fingerprints that match the others on that knife The prosecutor was all for it, and even Sheriff Huck didn't put up much of a squawk. —  AHMM,November2006
  • All this jibber jabber is all a roundabout way of saying that mixed socio-economic backgrounds do co-exsist peacefully in Over-the-Rhine and its a pattern that should continue until the whole giant-sized neighborhood is reformed. —  Report This!: JoeWessels.Net
  • He curses me, but his words are just jibber-jabber. —  123 I Love You
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English javeren, of imitative origin.

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  1. Early modern E. jaber, also jabble, jabil, assibilated form of gabber and gabble, freq. of gab: see gab, gabber, gabble, gibber.
  2. from jabber, v.
 

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/ˈdʒæbər/
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