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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

JAB'BER, v.i. To talk rapidly or indistinctly; to chatter; to prate.
JAB'BER, n. Rapid talk with indistinct utterance of words.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: rapid and indistinct speech [syn: jabber, jabbering, gabble] v
1: talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner [syn: rant, mouth off, jabber, spout, rabbit on, rave]

Merriam Webster's

I. verb (jabbered; jabbering) Etymology: Middle English jaberen, of imitative origin Date: 15th century intransitive verb to talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly transitive verb to speak rapidly or indistinctly • jabberer noun II. noun Date: 1708 gibberish, chatter

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v. 1 intr. chatter volubly and incoherently. 2 tr. utter (words) fast and indistinctly. --n. meaningless jabbering; a gabble. Etymology: imit.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Jabber Jab"ber, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Jabbered; p. pr. & vb. n. Jabbering.] [Cf. Gibber, Gabble.] To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense; to chatter. --Swift.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Jabber Jab"ber, v. t. To utter rapidly or indistinctly; to gabble; as, to jabber French. --Addison.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Jabber Jab"ber, n. Rapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance; gibberish. --Swift.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Jabber Jab"ber, n. One who jabbers.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(jabbers, jabbering, jabbered) If you say that someone is jabbering, you mean that they are talking very quickly and excitedly, and you cannot understand them. The girl jabbered incomprehensibly... After a minute or two I left them there jabbering away. VERB: V, V away [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. n. Prate, chatter, prattle, gabble, talk rapidly, talk idly. II. v. a. Speak rapidly. III. n. Prate, prattle, gab, chatter, idle talk.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

To talk thick and fast, as great praters usually do, to chatter like a magpye; also to speak a foreign language. He jabbered to rne in his damned outlandish parlez vous, but I could not understand him; he chattered to me in French, or some other foreign language, but I could not understand him.

Moby Thesaurus

Greek, absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash, bavardage, bibble-babble, blab, blabber, blah-blah, blather, blether, blethers, blubber, bombast, bull, bullshit, cackle, caquet, caqueterie, chat, chatter, chitter-chatter, clack, claptrap, clatter, dither, double-talk, drivel, drone, droning, drool, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flummery, folderol, fudge, fustian, gab, gabble, galimatias, gammon, gas, gibber, gibbering, gibberish, gibble-gabble, go on, gobbledygook, gossip, guff, gush, haver, hocus-pocus, hot air, humbug, idle talk, jabberwocky, 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, piffle, pour forth, prate, prating, prattle, prittle-prattle, ramble on, rant, rattle, rattle on, reel off, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade, rubbish, run on, skimble-skamble, sob, speak incoherently, splutter, spout, spout off, sputter, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, susurrate, susurration, talk away, talk nonsense, talk on, talkee-talkee, tittle-tattle, trash, trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vapor, vaporing, waffle, waffling, whisper, whispering, yak, yakkety-yak, yap