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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GAB'BLE, v.i. [Eng. to gibe.]
1. To prate; to talk fast, or to talk without meaning.
Such a rout, and such a rabble,
Run to hear Jack Pudding gabble.
2. To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; as gabbling fowls.
GAB'BLE, n. Loud or rapid talk with meaning.
1. Inarticulate sounds rapidly uttered, as of fowls.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: rapid and indistinct speech [syn: jabber, jabbering, gabble] v
1: speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly [syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle- tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble]

Merriam Webster's

verb (gabbled; gabbling) Etymology: probably of imitative origin Date: 1577 intransitive verb 1. to talk fast or foolishly ; jabber 2. to utter inarticulate or animal sounds transitive verb to say with incoherent rapidity ; babble • gabble noun • gabbler noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v. 1 intr. a talk volubly or inarticulately. b read aloud too fast. 2 tr. utter too fast, esp. in reading aloud. --n. fast unintelligible talk. Derivatives: gabbler n. Etymology: MDu. gabbelen (imit.)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Gabble Gab"ble, n. 1. Loud or rapid talk without meaning. Forthwith a hideous gabble rises loud Among the builders. --Milton. 2. Inarticulate sounds rapidly uttered; as of fowls.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Gabble Gab"ble, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gabbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Gabbling.] [Freq. of gab. See Gab, v. i.] 1. To talk fast, or to talk without meaning; to prate; to jabber. --Shak. 2. To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; as, gabbling fowls. --Dryden.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(gabbles, gabbling, gabbled) If you gabble, you say things so quickly that it is difficult for people to understand you. (INFORMAL) Marcello sat on his knee and gabbled excitedly... She gabbles on about drug dealers and journalists... One of the soldiers gabbled something and pointed at the front door. = babble VERB: V, V adv, V n, also V with quote

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. n. Chatter, prattle, babble, jabber, talk idly, rattle on. See prate, v. n. II. n. Prate, prattle, chatter, clack, cackle, gossip, palaver, gab, idle talk, small talk.

Moby Thesaurus

absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash, bavardage, bibble-babble, blab, blabber, blah-blah, blather, blether, blethers, blubber, bombast, bull, bullshit, cackle, call, caquet, caqueterie, carol, caw, chat, chatter, cheep, chirk, chirp, chirr, chirrup, chitter, chitter-chatter, chuck, clack, claptrap, clatter, cluck, cock-a-doodle-doo, coo, croak, cronk, crow, cuckoo, dither, double-talk, drivel, drone, droning, drool, drum, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flummery, folderol, fudge, fustian, gab, gaggle, galimatias, gammon, gas, gibber, gibbering, gibberish, gibble-gabble, go on, gobble, gobbledygook, gossip, guff, guggle, gush, haver, hocus-pocus, honk, hoo, hoot, hot air, humbug, idle talk, jabber, jargon, jaw, jibber, maunder, maundering, mere talk, mouth, mouthing, mumble, mumbling, mumbo jumbo, murmur, murmuring, mutter, muttering, narrishkeit, natter, niaiserie, nonsense, nonsense talk, pack of nonsense, palaver, patter, peep, piffle, pip, pipe, pour forth, prate, prating, prattle, prittle-prattle, quack, ramble on, rant, rattle, rattle on, reel off, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade, roll, rubbish, run on, scold, sing, skimble-skamble, sob, speak incoherently, splutter, spout, spout off, sputter, squawk, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, susurrate, susurration, talk away, talk nonsense, talk on, talkee-talkee, tittle-tattle, trash, trill, trumpery, twaddle, twattle, tweet, twiddle-twaddle, twit, twitter, vapor, vaporing, waffle, waffling, warble, whisper, whispering, whistle, yak, yakkety-yak