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GABBLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Rapid and indistinct speech
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("gabble" is a kind of...):
gibber; gibberish (unintelligible talking)
Derivation:
gabble (speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they gabble ... he / she / it gabbles
Past simple: gabbled
Past participle: gabbled
-ing form: gabbling
Sense 1
Meaning:
Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
Synonyms:
blab; blabber; chatter; clack; gabble; gibber; maunder; palaver; piffle; prate; prattle; tattle; tittle-tattle; twaddle
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "gabble" is one way to...):
mouth; speak; talk; utter; verbalise; verbalize (express in speech)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "gabble"):
babble; blather; blether; blither; smatter (to talk foolishly)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
gabble (rapid and indistinct speech)
