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Rapid and indistinct speech
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jabbering
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. talking idly or incoherently; "blithering (or blathering) idiot"; "jabbering children"; "gabbling housewives"; "a babbling hospital inmate" [syn: blathering , blithering , babbling ] n. rapid and indistinct speech [syn: jabber , gabble ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jabber \Jab"ber\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Jabbered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Jabbering .] [Cf. Gibber , Gabble .] To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense; to chatter. --Swift.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Speech that jabbers; gibberish. vb. (present participle of jabber English)
Usage examples of jabbering.
He had to work hard, gesturing and jabbering, to persuade Hands not to hurl his stones.
The cactus people were jabbering in their harsh pidgin, arguing over who was to go in.
Squat and Little Boss were jabbering and throwing slaps at each other.
As she watched them jabbering of who was screwing whom while their hands worked at one tool or another, apparently independently, she found it hard to imagine how it must be to be a Ham.
A third Elf squirmed within the net, frightened, angry, jabbering, a bundle of muscle and fur and long, human-like limbs.
She raged and shouted in her jabbering Skinny tongue, and pulled on her furs and gathered her tools, and stamped out of the cave.
Men and women, tough-faced humans and other races, even a few constructs were all around her, bartering, working, jabbering in Salt.
It was very cold as she made her way home past the crowds, under jabbering Armada monkeys in the rigging, over the swaying walkways and decks and raised streets of the city, over the waves that slopped between vessels.
Those in the crowd were gazing out at it, sharing their telescopes and jabbering in incredulity as its outlines became clear.
The creatures were jabbering agitatedly among themselves as they hurried in, and they wasted no time.
It was the boss Heechee, jabbering in excitement but beckoning insistently.
They stopped in a chamber like the one they had first entered, where half a dozen Heechee were jabbering and pointing at the lock.
They were blasted on wine the whole time and jabbering in Spanish like revolutionaries.
His prehensile nose quivered as a cluster of Jawas hurried by, jabbering rapidly.
But it was not until now, this oddly mundane moment here on this hillside, in a cheap car with jabbering Paulis and taciturn Xenia, that he had actually set eyes on his BDB: his Big Dumb Booster, the spaceship whose destiny would shape the rest of this life, one way or the other.