(v. i.) To talk fast, or to talk without meaning; to prate; to jabber.
(v. i.) To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; as, gabbling fowls.
(n.) Loud or rapid talk without meaning.
(n.) Inarticulate sounds rapidly uttered; as of fowls.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rose woke his wife, Tania, gabbled the story to her – and immediately fell asleep again.
(2) The chancellor gabbled his way through some important changes to benefits in the middle of his speech, presumably hoping to give the overall impression that the package was not as bad as it might have been.
(3) It’s the only place where silence is mandatory and generalised rather than an accidental moment in-between bursts of activity, and it requires great skills of concentration and inner stillness to develop the wherewithal to take your book or your work to a library table and sit down and study without surfing the web, shooting off a text or gabbling about nothing to your friends.
(4) This was the moment in Osborne's otherwise polished peroration when he started to gabble, as the chancellor rushed through a series of technical announcements, the impact of which will be anything but technical.
(5) He was very excited, gabbling, so I said, ‘Should I come round and see you?’ And he was like, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.’” But when Connor handed the phone back to the nurse, she said no, Connor didn’t want him to come.
(6) Like a child fulfilling a dare, he gabbled a warning about putting ideas into the blacks' heads, before losing his nerve and leaving.
(7) There was no one else around; no sounds except the wind and waves, and the faint gabble of the birds among the flowers.
(8) Instead, we have Allison Pearson from the Telegraph calling for internment and Katie Hopkins gabbling about a “final solution” to the Muslim problem like a Devon Eva Braun.
(9) I mean gabble, gabble, gabble, gabble … Has she some new stories for you?
(10) At one end of the spectrum was wonderful Jordan, who gave leave of his sanity within the first 10 minutes and spent the rest of the episode vacillating between singing to himself and gabbling about losing his cherries, while Nancy – whose flawless bakes earned her Star Baker – sat primly at the other end, a vision of calm and composure, albeit with a steely glint in her eye.
(11) He emerges into the light only rarely, to gabble strings of statistics like a Treasury answering machine.
Garble
Definition:
(v. t.) To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dros or dirt; as, to garble spices.
(v. t.) To pick out such parts of as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert; as, to garble a quotation; to garble an account.
(n.) Refuse; rubbish.
(n.) Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; -- also called garblings.
Example Sentences:
(1) His phone calls have become filled with echoes and garbled talk.
(2) Transposition of the corner of the mouth utilizing the Z-plasty technique has proven to be an effective method to correct the drooling and garbled speech associated with facial paralysis.
(3) "When she came out with some particularly garbled bit of folklore and was met with the usual amusement and incomprehension, she retorted 'It may be an old fallacy, but it's true!'
(4) Now 86, Daddy – the 11th Duke of Marlborough - has the garbled, sticky plum crumble diction of the irredeemably posh.
(5) The text seemed more like garbled science fiction than a guide for students and civil servants.
(6) Republican debate: Donald Trump was garbled, incoherent - but dominant Read more But while the doubts stuck to more moderate Republican candidates, in their own way they stuck to the Donald as well.
(7) Wodehouse called it a "frightful label", and his garbled childhood pronunciation, 'Plum', became his affectionate nickname for the rest of his life.
(8) I'll do a round-up shortly... • - and not garbling his chambers of Congress as I unforgivably did earlier.
(9) Clean energy is really struggling because the story has gotten garbled," said Larry Schweiger, president of the National Wildlife Federation .
(10) Experts say an independent run would almost certainly hand the race over to Democrats and likely another Clinton?” Trump was unapologetic, although his explanation was garbled.
(11) Coburn appeared uncomfortable, frequently garbling his words and drawing derisive laughter from the audience.
(12) Each usage is found to be imprecise and unreliable, and many of the usages are garbled, with inappropriate comparisons commonly made among them.
(13) • This article was amended on Monday 29 April 2013 to correct the standfirst, which had become garbled during the editing process.
(14) It doesn’t matter what language you are speaking, if you are speaking in a garbled fashion.” 8.46pm BST Meanwhile my Guardian colleagues and I are being booed ... ... for not participating in the Mexican wave in the stadium.
(15) So far they have revealed little about themselves, posting brief notes and links on Pastebin – a site favoured by hackers to “dump” material – writing in garbled English that suggests it is not their first language.
(16) • This article was updated on 26 July 2014 to edit a garbled quote at the end of the text.
(17) "If (for example) a person doesn't speak very good English, or is simply unclear, it may be better to quote their slightly broken or garbled English than to quote their more precise written work," he wrote, but conceded that this was "an error of judgment".
(18) Unsplitting the infinitive in the New Yorker cartoon caption "I'm moving to France to not get fat" (yielding "I'm moving to France not to get fat") would garble the meaning, and doing so with "Profits are expected to more than double this year," would result in gibberish: "Profits are expected more than to double this year."
(19) Now the maverick electronic producer’s sixth studio album has a release date, an amusingly garbled press release and song titles that are gnomic in the extreme – tracks such as 4 bit 9d api+e+6 [126.26] suggest this won’t be an easy-listening affair with designs on the charts.
(20) • This article was amended on 19 February 2016 to correct a percentage given for Cambridge in the last paragraph and clarify an earlier garbled sentence.