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gibble-gabble|ˈgɪb(ə)lˈgæb(ə)l|
Also 7 gible-gable.
[Reduplication of gabble n. Cf. fiddle-faddle.]
Senseless chatter.
1600Dekker Gent. Craft (1610) C 3 Hee's some vplandish workman, hire him good maister, that I may learne some gibble, gabble, twill make vs worke the faster. 1615J. Taylor (Water P.) Siege Jerus. Wks. (1630) 10/2 Such Gibrish Gibble Gabble all did iangle. 1769Trinculo's Trip 41 Soon was heard a gibble-gabble, Neither harmony or sense. 1889N.W. Linc. Gloss. (ed. 2), Gibble-gabble, silly chatter.
attrib.a1693Urquhart Rabelais iii. xxii. 178 The Gibble gabble Gibbrish of this odious Error and Heresie. 1745–6Mrs. Delany in Life & Corr. (1861) II. 424 A strange gibble-gabble woman has plagued me all the morning.
Hence † ˈgibble-ˈgabble v. Also † ˈgibble-ˈgabbler.
1653Gibblegablers [see gibberish n. Comb.]. 1775Shirrefs Poems (1790) 211 They said the grace as fast as able, Syn a' yok'd to to gibble-gabble, And mak a din. c1785J. Thompson's Man 11 She will gibble-gabble like a Goose. |