Verb

(head)

(gabble)

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)

Verb

(head)

(wabble)

Verb

(wabbl)

wobble, move to and fro

*{{quote-book, year=1911, author=Milo Hastings, title=In the Clutch of the War-God, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Their planes wabble , the metal frame work is too stiff, it doesn't yield to the air pressure." }}

*{{quote-book, year=1966, author=Ambrose Bierce, title=The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Presently, as the sustaining centrifugal force lessened and failed, she began to sway and wabble from side to side, and finally, toppling over on her side, rolled convulsively on her back and lay motionless with all her feet in the air, honestly believing that the world had somehow got atop of her and she was supporting it at a great sacrifice of personal comfort. }}