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Pabbles vs Gabbles - What's the difference?

pabbles | gabbles |

As verbs the difference between pabbles and gabbles

is that pabbles is third-person singular of pabble while gabbles is third-person singular of gabble.

pabbles

English

Verb

(head)
  • (pabble)

    • pabble

    English

    Verb

  • To make the sound like liquid or porridge makes when bubbling under heat, on a stove.
  • *1832. J. Wilson in Blackw. Mag. XXXI. 879:
    • The hissing, and the fizzing, and the pabbling of the great pan in which the basted trouts are writhing.
  • *1834. I Ibid. XXXV. 789:
  • *:We hear them pabbling in the pan.

    • References

    *OED

    gabbles

    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