(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.
Grabble
Definition:
(v. i.) To grope; to feel with the hands.
(v. i.) To lie prostrate on the belly; to sprawl on the ground; to grovel.
Example Sentences:
(1) "The family is still grabbling [sic] with the most shabby treatment throughout the years, especially in Mangaung in January this year," the email states.