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Garbled vs Gabbled - What's the difference?

garbled | gabbled |

As verbs the difference between garbled and gabbled

is that garbled is past tense of garble while gabbled is past tense of gabble.

As an adjective garbled

is (of a message etc) difficult to understand because it has been distorted; scrambled.

garbled

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (of a message etc) difficult to understand because it has been distorted; scrambled

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (garble)

    • Synonyms

    * confused * disconnected * disjointed * disordered * distorted * illogical * mixed up * scattered * unconnected

    Anagrams

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    gabbled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (gabble)

    • gabble

    English

    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)

    Synonyms

    * (l)

    Synonyms

    * See also English reporting verbs