What does gabble mean?

Definitions for gabble
ˈgæb əlgab·ble

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. jabber, jabbering, gabbleverb

    rapid and indistinct speech

  2. chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabbleverb

    speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

GCIDE

  1. Gabbleverb

    To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; -- used of fowls as well as people; as, gabbling geese.

Wiktionary

  1. gabbleverb

    To talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Gabblenoun

    Etymology: from the verb.

    Not to know what we speak one to another, so we seem to know, is to know straight our purpose: chough’s language, gabble enough, and good enough. William Shakespeare, All’s well that ends well.

    Forthwith a hideous gabble rises loud
    Among the builders; each to other calls,
    Not understood. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. xii.

  2. To Gabbleverb

    Etymology: gabbare, Italian; gabberen, Dutch.

    When thou could’st not, savage,
    Shew thine own meaning, but would’st gabble like
    A thing most brutish, I endow’d thy purposes
    With words that made them known. William Shakespeare, Tempest.

    Flocks of fowl, that when the tempests roar,
    With their hoarse gabbling seek the silent shoar. John Dryden, Æn.

    Have you no wit, manners, nor honesty, but to gabble like tinkers at this time of night? Do ye make an alehouse of my lady’s house? William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night.

    Which made some think, when he did gabble,
    Th’ had heard three labourers of Babel. Hudibras, p. i.

    Such a rout, and such a rabble,
    Run to hear Jack Pudding gabble. Jonathan Swift.

Wikipedia

  1. Gabble

    Babbling is a stage in child development and a state in language acquisition during which an infant appears to be experimenting with uttering articulate sounds, but does not yet produce any recognizable words. Babbling begins shortly after birth and progresses through several stages as the infant's repertoire of sounds expands and vocalizations become more speech-like. Infants typically begin to produce recognizable words when they are around 12 months of age, though babbling may continue for some time afterward.Babbling can be seen as a precursor to language development or simply as vocal experimentation. The physical structures involved in babbling are still being developed in the first year of a child's life. This continued physical development is responsible for some of the changes in abilities and variations of sound babies can produce. Abnormal developments such as certain medical conditions, developmental delays, and hearing impairments may interfere with a child's ability to babble normally. Though there is still disagreement about the uniqueness of language to humans, babbling is not unique to the human species.

ChatGPT

  1. gabble

    Gabble is the act of talking rapidly, unintelligibly, or nonsensically, often due to excitement or urgency. As a noun, it refers to the fast, unintelligible, or nonsensical speech.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Gabbleverb

    to talk fast, or to talk without meaning; to prate; to jabber

  2. Gabbleverb

    to utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; as, gabbling fowls

  3. Gabblenoun

    loud or rapid talk without meaning

  4. Gabblenoun

    inarticulate sounds rapidly uttered; as of fowls

  5. Etymology: [Freq. of gab. See Gab, v. i.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Gabble

    gab′l, v.i. to talk inarticulately: to chatter: to cackle like geese.—ns. Gabb′le; Gabb′ler; Gabb′ling, Gabb′lement. [Freq. of gab.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of gabble in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of gabble in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

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