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Gabble   Listen
verb
Gabble  v. i.  (past & past part. gabbled; pres. part. gabbling)  
1.
To talk fast, or to talk without meaning; to prate; to jabber.
2.
To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; used of fowls as well as people; as, gabbling geese.


noun
Gabble  n.  
1.
Loud or rapid talk without meaning. "Forthwith a hideous gabble rises loud Among the builders."
2.
Inarticulate sounds rapidly uttered; as of fowls.





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"Gabble" Quotes from Famous Books



... like "flies in the shambles." Such a soul has GAMBETTA. He is all language. If you were to cut him up in little bits and put each atom under a microscope, you would find in every molecule the text of some proclamation. The genii of syntax and prosody are his guardian angels, and the love of "gabble" is the be-all and the end-all of his political existence. He loves not GARIBALDI. He would have done violence to his grandmother rather than consent to the invitation of the Italian liberator. For short, he calls him "GARRY." ...
— Punchinello, Vol. II., No. 34, November 19, 1870 • Various
... comprehension. One glance at his moveless eyes is enough to prove that. They are like pebbles in his head—without cognisance or expression. He mutters the words 'Great Secret' over and over again, and tacks it on to the other phrase of 'No more wars' in a semi-conscious sort of gabble,—this is, of course, the disordered action of the brain working to catch up and ...
— The Secret Power • Marie Corelli
... whom shall men thyself compare, Since common models fail 'em, Save classic goose of ancient Rome, Or sacred ass of Balaam? The gabble of that wakeful goose Saved Rome from sack of Brennus; The braying of the prophet's ass Betrayed the ...
— The Complete Works of Whittier - The Standard Library Edition with a linked Index • John Greenleaf Whittier
... Democracy at housekeeping for herself,—we see him influencing State and even National politics, but always as a man who preferred attaining the end to being known as the means,—and finally, as Chief Justice, reforming the loose habits of the bar, intolerant of gabble, and leaving the permanent impress of his energetic mind and impatient logic on the Common Law ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 21, July, 1859 • Various
... wind is not so cold As the bright smile he sees me win, Nor the host's oldest wine so old As our poor gabble, sour and thin. ...
— Masterpieces Of American Wit And Humor • Thomas L. Masson (Editor)


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