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Grunt vs Jabber - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between grunt and jabber

is that grunt is a short, snorting sound, often to show disapproval, or used as a reply when one is reluctant to speak while jabber is rapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance; gibberish.

As verbs the difference between grunt and jabber

is that grunt is frequentative: gruntle while jabber is to talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.

grunt

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A short, snorting sound, often to show disapproval, or used as a reply when one is reluctant to speak.
  • The snorting cry of a pig.
  • Any fish of the perciform family Haemulidae.
  • (label) An infantry soldier. (From the verb, just like all the other senses.)

    • Derived terms

    * grunt boy * grunt work

    Verb

    (en verb) * Frequentative: gruntle
  • To make a grunt or grunts.
  • * Shakespeare
  • To make a grunt or grunts.
  • To break wind; to fart.

    • References

    ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==

    Adjective

    (head)
    • ----

    jabber

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (label) To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
  • (label) To utter rapidly or indistinctly; to gabble.
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    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=She had Lord James' collar in one big fist and she pounded the table with the other and talked a blue streak. Nobody could make out plain what she said, for she was mainly jabbering Swede lingo, but there was English enough, of a kind, to give us some idee.}}

    Noun

    (-)
  • Rapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance; gibberish.
    • (Jonathan Swift)