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

(en verb)

to spray droplets while speaking

to speak hurriedly and confusedly

to perform to a substandard level

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