Gable vs Gabble - What's the difference?
gable | gabble |
(architecture) The triangular area of external wall adjacent to two meeting sloped roofs.
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 noun gable
is the triangular area of external wall adjacent to two meeting sloped roofs.As a verb gabble is
to talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning.gable
English
(wikipedia gable)Etymology 1
From (etyl) gable (compare modern French ).Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* gable roofSee also
* pedimentEtymology 2
Anagrams
* * ----gabble
English
Verb
(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)