Gabbler vs Dabbler - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between gabbler and dabbler

is that gabbler is one who gabbles, or prates loquaciously on a trifling subject while dabbler is one who dabbles.

(en noun)

One who gabbles, or prates loquaciously on a trifling subject.

Note the differences implied between gabblers and other prattlers in translation of The Arabian Nights (at the end of the tailor's tale).

* chatterer * jabberer

* (Note the somewhat different definition.) * * Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.

(en noun)

one who dabbles

: Marissa was just a dabbler when it came to writing; she blogged a little, but had never submitted any work to a serious publication.