Gabble vs Gaggle - What's the difference?

Gabble is a related term of gaggle.

As verbs the difference between gabble and gaggle

is that gabble is to talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning while gaggle is to make a noise like a goose; to cackle.

As a noun gaggle is

a group of geese when they are on the ground or on the water.

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

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Synonyms

* See also English reporting verbs

gaggle

English

Noun

(en noun)

A group of geese when they are on the ground or on the water.

Any group or gathering of related things; bunch.

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Verb

(gaggl)

To make a noise like a goose; to cackle.

(Francis Bacon)

* 1733 , , "A New Simile for the Ladies with Useful Annotations by Dr. Sheridan", note 7 (in The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Vol. II ):

When a friend asked Socrates, how he could bear the scolding of his wife Xantippe? he retorted, and asked him, how he could bear the gaggling of his geese?