Gabbled vs Gabbed - What's the difference?
gabbled | gabbed |
(gabble)
To talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning.
* 1611 , William Shakespeare, The Tempest , Act I, scene II :
* 1900 , , The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg , ch. 4:
* 2013 , . Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company. chapter 16. p. 144.
To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity.
(gab)
idle chatter
The mouth or gob.
One of the open-forked ends of rods controlling reversing in early steam engines.
(obsolete) To jest; to tell lies in jest; exaggerate; lie.
To talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects.
(obsolete) To speak or tell falsely.
As verbs the difference between gabbled and gabbed
is that gabbled is (gabble) while gabbed is (gab).gabbled
English
Verb
(head)gabble
English
Verb
(en-verb)- 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
- Then he fell to gabbling strange and dreadful things which were not clearly understandable.
- 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?
- gabbling fowls
- (Dryden)