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Gabble vs Babble - What's the difference?

gabble | babble |

Babble is a synonym of gabble.



As verbs the difference between gabble and babble

is that gabble is to talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning while babble is to utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as, a child babbles.

As a noun babble is

idle talk; senseless prattle; gabble; twaddle.

gabble

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning.
  • * 1611 , William Shakespeare, The Tempest , Act I, scene II :
    • I pitied thee, took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour one thing or other; when thou didst not, savage, know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like a thing most brutish
  • * 1900 , , The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg , ch. 4:
    • Then he fell to gabbling strange and dreadful things which were not clearly understandable.
  • * 2013 , . Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company. chapter 16. p. 144.
    • Does she regard him simply as a workman come to do a job for her, someone whom she need never lay eyes on again; or is she gabbling to hide discomfiture?
  • To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity.
    • gabbling fowls
    (Dryden)

    Synonyms

    * (l)

    Synonyms

    * See also English reporting verbs

    babble

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Idle talk; senseless prattle; gabble; twaddle.
  • * 1634 , John Milton, Comus, a Mask , line 823:
  • * "This is mere moral babble ."
  • Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur.
  • :* The babble of our young children. - .
  • A sound like that of water gently flowing around obstructions.
  • :* The babble of the stream. - .

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * astrobabble * econobabble * edu-babble * neurobabble * psychobabble * sociobabble * technobabble

    See also

    * babblement * babblery

    Verb

    (babbl)
  • To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as, a child babbles .
  • To talk incoherently; to utter unmeaning words.
  • To talk much; to chatter; to prate.
  • To make a continuous murmuring noise, as shallow water running over stones.
  • :* In every babbling brook he finds a friend. - .
    • Hounds are said to babble,''' or to be '''babbling, when they are too noisy after having found a good scent.
  • To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way; to repeat, as words, in a childish way without understanding.
  • :* These words he used to babble in all companies. - .
  • To disclose by too free talk, as a secret.

    • References

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