gabble
See also: gable
English
[edit]Etymology
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From gab + -le. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gabbelje (“to mock”), Dutch gabbelen (“to chatter, babble”), German Low German gabbeln (“to mock”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈɡæbəl/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -æbəl
Verb
[edit]gabble (third-person singular simple present gabbles, present participle gabbling, simple past and past participle gabbled)
- (ambitransitive) To talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning.
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
- I pitied thee, took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour one thing or other; when thou didst not, savage, know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like a thing most brutish
- 1900, Mark Twain, chapter 4, in The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg:
- Then he fell to gabbling strange and dreadful things which were not clearly understandable.
- 1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC:
- Americans are always drinking in crossroads saloons on Sunday afternoon; they bring their kids; they gabble and brawl over brews; everything’s fine.
- 2013, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 16, in The Childhood of Jesus, Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company, page 144:
- Does she regard him simply as a workman come to do a job for her, someone whom she need never lay eyes on again; or is she gabbling to hide discomfiture?
- To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity.
- gabbling fowls
- 1697, Virgil, “The Ninth Pastoral. Or, Lycidas, and Moeris.”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 43:
- I not to Cinna’s Ears, nor Varus dare aſpire; / But gabble like a Gooſe; amidſt the Svvan-like Quire.
Synonyms
[edit]- babble; See also Thesaurus:prattle
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning
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to utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity
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Noun
[edit]gabble (uncountable)
- Confused or unintelligible speech.
- 1914, G. K. Chesterton, The Wisdom of Father Brown:
- a lot of gabble from witnesses
- 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 26:
- [T]he driver was delayed there by a skimpy little woman with a thin piping voice practised in the art of defeating escape from it by a ceaseless stream of gabble.
Synonyms
[edit]- See also Thesaurus:chatter
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]Yola
[edit]Etymology
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[edit]Noun
[edit]gabble
- talk, prattle
- 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 84:
- Ha deight ouse var gabble, tell ee zin go t'glade.
- You have put us in talk, 'till the sun goes to set.
References
[edit]- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 41
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