GABBLE


Meaning of GABBLE in English

I. verb

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Leila threw herself on Quincx, gabbling about what happened.

O'Neill was gabbling and the conversation was running away like a driverless express.

Squeezing her eyes so tightly shut that they looked like senile lips, Mary began to gabble .

They charged into the other dressing rooms, gabbling as they started a quick change for another number.

Very sensible of Hilda: nothing is more ridiculous than an old-age pensioner gabbling on about his or her risqué past.

II. noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

the gabble of the audience before the show

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A series of whoops came from round the pit, followed by a shout and a gabble of voices.

Then, from a long way off, I heard a high, laughing gabble , faint and coming closer.

When the reverberations ceased, the gabble of the audience also did.

Words gushed out incontinently: a gabble , of which, alas, it was only too easy to make sense.

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