Gabbles vs Grabbles - What's the difference?
gabbles | grabbles |
(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.
(grabble)
To search with one's hands and fingers; to grope.
To lie prostrate on the belly; to sprawl on the ground; to grovel.
As verbs the difference between gabbles and grabbles
is that gabbles is (gabble) while grabbles is (grabble).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)
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* (l)Synonyms
* See also English reporting verbsgrabbles
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(head)Anagrams
*grabble
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(grabbl)- A few hollow groans from the wardrobe, he thought, would be more than sufficient, or, if that failed to wake her, he might grabble''' at the counterpane with palsy-twitching fingers.'' - ' 1887 ,
- He puts his hands into his pockets, and keeps a-grabbling and fumbling. — Selden.
- (Ainsworth)