(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.
Jabber
Definition:
(n.) One who jabbers.
(v. i.) To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense; to chatter.
(v. t.) To utter rapidly or indistinctly; to gabble; as, to jabber French.
(n.) Rapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance; gibberish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alan Johnson, who was a union general secretary himself, is right to caution that "a return of the union finger jabbers" will be bad for Labour, especially with the centrist voters in the southern half of the country who must be won back if Labour is to return to power.
(2) "I just want to make sure I got the last answer," he jabbers on.
(3) I can play ball, sweat and leave.” Two blocks away a bundled-up figure lay facing a wall, jabbering to himself in Arabic.
(4) "By GOD," Hilary gasps in episode one, possibly realising she has signed up for months of sitting in this dusty 90s hellhole with Perfect Peter Jones and know-it-all Theo having to entertain a dismal tribe of jabberers, snake-oil salesmen, "mumpreneurs" and emotionally adrift dreamers who researchers found in mid-afternoon Wetherspoons.
(5) Most recently, the multimillionaire friend of David Cameron, Jeremy Clarkson , continues to enjoy a contract funded by the public that permits him to "humorously" jabber racist rubbish at us.
(6) Detailed witness statements from the five men - Hussein Jabbari Ali, Hussain Fadhil Abass, Atiyah Sayid Abdelreza, Madhi Jassim Abdullah and Ahmad Jabber Ahmood - describe what they heard while in detention, when they said they were cuffed and forced to wear blacked-out goggles.
(7) That’s where I cut my teeth, in that independent scene full of punks and noise freaks and drag queens and experimental composers and jabbering street poets.
(8) He said it was a response to a critic who'd jabbered at him incessantly; it was interpreted as a critique of the impossibility of thought without language.
(9) Manchester City 1-1 Borussia Dortmund (Balotelli 89pen) After completely ignoring Wedienfeller jabbering in his ear as he waited to take the spot-kick, Mario Balotelli takes his run-up, stops and then waits for the goalkeeper to dive towards one corner before nonchalantly rolling the ball into the other.
(10) People are queueing all day long,” said Nuha Abdul Jabber, Oxfam’s humanitarian programme manager in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a.
(11) The inquiry was commissioned after the deaths of Baha Mousa , a hotel receptionist who died in British custody with 93 separate injuries, and 16-year-old Ahmed Jabber Kareem, who drowned after allegedly being forced to swim across a river.
(12) Just noticed Dundee United legend Ivan Golac in the Southampton team photo,” interjects Simon McMahon in the excited, jabbering fashion.
(13) I had got off a plane only the night before after a 21-hour flight and was beginning to think that I was tripping as Johan Renck and his lighting cameraman jabbered away in Swedish, discussing the complexity of the shot.
(14) Two other civilians, Ahmed Jabber Kareem and Hassan Abbad Said, are also known to have died in British military custody, or while being taken into custody.
(15) Anyway, I haven't quit the newspaper, but I have, for the meantime, stopped writing weekly, partly because my overall workload was making that kind of timetable impossible, and partly because I've recently been overwhelmed by the sheer amount of jabber in the world: a vast cloud of blah I felt I was contributing to every seven days.
(16) She begins by jabbering a bit about untimely celebrity deaths, especially those whose lives are "shadowed by dark appetites or fractured by private vice".
(17) Even at their best, Donald Trump’s tweets – disjointed, jabbering and ungrammatical as they are – have the nonsensical ring of spam email.
(18) ESPN have been on air since then and haven't stopped jabbering away for the last eight hours.
(19) It is becoming almost impossible to survive Nuha Abdul Jabber, Oxfam “There are less and less of the basic necessities.
(20) Ahmad's father, Jabber Kareem Ali, 44, wrote to the British military asking them to pursue the investigation.