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Gabbled

Gabble \Gab"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gabbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Gabbling.] [Freq. of gab. See Gab, v. i.]

  1. To talk fast, or to talk without meaning; to prate; to jabber.
    --Shak.

  2. To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; -- used of fowls as well as people; as, gabbling geese.

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gabbled

vb. (en-past of: gabble)

Usage examples of "gabbled".

I've never had a career all my life and now I'm in the autumn of my days and I need something for myself,' she gabbled, as if reading from a cue card.

The natives gabbled, and he felt leathery hands urging him to stretch out and lie down on his back.

They were confused, they had been in some trance, they said, but they gabbled descriptions of monsters, insect devils without eyes, dark hunched bodies unfolding in a nightmare conjunction of limbs.

They gabbled it like idiots for some minutes, to the home secretary and the mayor who was with her, shaking them with frustration, their lips twitching for other sounds, blood spattering their bosses’ immaculate tailoring.

They were confused, they had been in some trance, they said, but they gabbled descriptions of mon­sters, insect devils without eyes, dark hunched bodies unfolding in a nightmare conjunction of limbs.

They gabbled it like idiots for some minutes, to the home secretary and the mayor who was with her, shaking them with frustration, their lips twitch­ing for other sounds, blood spattering their bosses’ immaculate tailoring.

Next they gabbled together in a language slightly reminiscent of the crazy talk he had interrupted in space.

He dressed himself while they pawed through the loot and gabbled together.

Leeming immediately made another coiled-loop, gabbled through it at the top of his voice and precipitated another raid.