Gabbles vs Gables - What's the difference?
gabbles | gables |
(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.
As a verb gabbles
is (gabble).As a noun gables is
.gabbles
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(head)gabble
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(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)