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GABBLE

Dictionary entry overview: What does gabble mean?

• GABBLE (noun)
The noun GABBLE has 1 sense:

1. rapid and indistinct speech

Familiarity information: GABBLE used as a noun is very rare.

• GABBLE (verb)
The verb GABBLE has 1 sense:

1. speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

Familiarity information: GABBLE used as a verb is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• GABBLE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Rapid and indistinct speech

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

gabble; jabber; jabbering

Hypernyms ("gabble" is a kind of...):

gibber; gibberish (unintelligible talking)

• GABBLE (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

tittle-tattle; tattle; prattle; prate; piffle; palaver; gibber; gabble; blabber; twaddle; blab; maunder; clack; chatter

Hypernyms (to "gabble" is one way to...):

mouth; speak; talk; utter; verbalise; verbalize (express in speech)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "gabble"):

babble; blather; blether; blither; smatter (to talk foolishly)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

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