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Gabble vs Rabble - What's the difference?

gabble | rabble |

As a verb gabble

is to talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning.

As a noun rabble is

a mob; a disorderly crowd.

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

    rabble

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A mob; a disorderly crowd.
  • The mass of common people; the lowest class of people.
  • Synonyms

    * riffraff

    Derived terms

    * rabble rouser