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▪ I. gabbling, vbl. n.|ˈgæb(ə)lɪŋ|
[f. gabble v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. gabble.
1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe Wks. (Grosart) V. 251 Their clacke or gabbling to this purport. 1633Ford Love's Sacr. iii. i, Foh! do not trick me off; I overheard your gabbling. 1685Stafford in Dryden's Misc. ii. (1685) 440 Time and patience..To tell the Gabblings of each Hag and Ghost. 1712Budgell Spect. No. 389 ⁋9 Having no language..but a confused gabbling which is neither well understood by themselves or other. 1769Goldsm. Rom. Hist. (1786) I. 181 The garrison were awaked by the gabbling of some sacred geese. 1833H. Martineau Cinnamon & Pearls ii. 26 Mixed with their chaunt came the mutterings and gabblings of the charmers. 1876Black Madcap V. xl. 352 A people..prone to gabbling after dinner.
▪ II. gabbling, ppl. a.|ˈgæb(ə)lɪŋ|
[f. gabble v. + -ing2.]
That gabbles. gabbling crow (see quot. 1756).
1625Hart Anat. Ur. i. i. 8 Her gabling gossips were officiously attending a better euent then they found. [Cf. quot. c 1624 s.v. gadling 4.] 1756P. Browne Jamaica 472 The gabbling Crow. This bird..is very noisy and seems to imitate the sounds of most syllables in every language, in its gabblings. a1771Smollett Burlesque Ode 27 Nor to the waddling duck or gabbling goose Did she glad sustenance refuse. 1821Clare Vill. Minstr. I. 24 Their gabbling talk did Lubin's cares beguile. 1873Black Pr. Thule xvii, Don't you know the mischief your gabbling tongue might make? 1877M. Grant Sun-Maid iv, I am a gabbling silly old thing. 1883Longm. Mag. July 293, I remember a gabbling sound of words. |