Crossword clues for gabble
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gabble \Gab"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gabbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Gabbling.] [Freq. of gab. See Gab, v. i.]
To talk fast, or to talk without meaning; to prate; to jabber.
--Shak.To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; -- used of fowls as well as people; as, gabbling geese.
Gabble \Gab"ble\, n.
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Loud or rapid talk without meaning.
Forthwith a hideous gabble rises loud Among the builders.
--Milton. Inarticulate sounds rapidly uttered; as of fowls.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"senseless, loud, rapid talk; animal noise," c.1600, from gabble (v.).
"to talk noisily, rapidly, and incoherently," 1570s, frequentative of gab (v.), or else imitative. Related: Gabbled; gabbling.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning. 2 To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity.
WordNet
Usage examples of "gabble".
The voices were squeaky and vague and loud, using a gabbling argot of transposed syllables and made-up words I could not follow much of it.
The boy Calistro was sent to roust out the village victualers while the new arrivals pushed through a gabbling, laughing mob toward an isolated tub where Peopeo Moxmox Burke sat, his long graying hair stringy in the bathhouse vapors and his craggy face atwitch as he suppressed a delighted grin.
This fellow Lawrence, who at bottom was a mere gabbling fool, began to get uneasy at my never asking him any questions.
For the next couple of minutes he gabbled out something of his life storyhow he was the son of a diplomat, a student at an expat school in the cityand how his harmless flirtation with a pretty girl he spotted at the Pantheon had led him into deep waters.
There were vendors who shouted the wares they displayed in trays hung from their necks, externs who gabbled in rude tongues, and beggars who showed their sores, feigned to play flageolets and ophicleides, and pinched their children to make them weep.
The Master had gone into a fit of rage, drooling and gabbling helplessly, and so one of the wax ushabti statues twitched and began working its jaws.
He gabbled something and turned to flee, whimpering high in his throat.
He was round the side and gabbling away at Barnacle, and trying to grab hold of him .
And they turned on Merlin when they could with a gabble of sorcery, raking up once more the old tale that he was demon-sired.
Syntactic programs ranging from the deeply esoteric to the plain silly had been employed, but they had not come close to cracking one word or a hint of a morpheme, of what was now being called The Gabble.
The precentor gabbled a grace, and the little company began their meal on the viands already on the table, for there were no hot dishes when fast was broken in summer-time.
He heard Auris gabble something to the humbugs again, high and shrill, looked back as he reached the bushes, and saw her already outside, running towards the shrubbery on his right.
Not enough to listen to any more of her silly gabble about the Beltane fires, at any rate.
But Isler was no Saganami, and the sharp, high note of panic in his voice as he gabbled incoherent orders over the command net finished any hint of cohesiveness in his shattered force.
Instead, he was trapped in a damp, dark cavern of a church listening to some lickspit priest gabble on and on and on in irksome Latin.