单词 | gabbling |
释义 | gabblingn. The action of gabbling (see gabble v.). Also (frequently in plural): gabbled speech, discourse, sounds, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [noun] > other types of sound jug1523 gabbling1599 bumping1646 gobbling1737 come-back1872 the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > chattering chaveling?c1225 janglingc1330 jangleryc1374 tatteringc1380 ganglinga1387 clatteringc1400 babbling?c1430 languetingc1450 pratinga1470 cackling1530 prattling1530 tattling1547 gaggling1548 clicketing1575 twattling1577 clacking1594 gabbling1599 blattering1604 snuttering1693 futileness1727 rattling1753 gabbering1798 magginga1800 yaffing1815 deblateration1817 tattlement1837 nattering1859 spieling1859 yattering1859 chatteration1862 quiddling1870 windjamming1886 waffling1958 motormouthing1981 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [noun] jargon1340 gibberishc1557 fustiana1593 hibber-gibber1593 rabble?1593 gabbling1599 rantum-scantum1599 ribble-rabble1601 gabble1602 High Dutch1602 Greek1603 baragouin1614 galimatias1653 riddle-me-ree1678 clink-clank1679 Hebrew1705 alieniloquy1727 jabber1735 mumbo-jumbo1738 gibbering1786 rigmarole1809 gibber1832 rigmarolery1833 Babelism1834 jargoning1837 barrikin1851 abracadabra1867 double Dutch1876 jabberwock1902 jabberwocky1908 jibber-jabber1922 mumbo-jumbery1923 mumbo1931 double-talk1938 garbology1944 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [noun] > instance of rotea1400 rabblec1400 rabblement1547 gabbling1599 bilka1637 ribble-row1665 sottise1673 rigmarolec1736 lockram1809 ráiméis1828 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 35 Their clacke or gabbling to this purport. 1633 J. Ford Loves Sacrifice iii. sig. F3v Fo, doe not trick me off, I ouerheard your gabling. 1685 J. Stafford tr. Horace Satyr i. ii, in J. Dryden Sylvæ 440 How much time and patience wou'd it cost, To tell the Gabblings of each Hag and Ghost? 1712 E. Budgell Spectator No. 389. ¶9 Having no language..but a confused gabbling which is neither well understood by themselves or other. 1777 Monthly Rev. July 41 The grunting of swine, the gabbling of geese, the cackling of a hen..would render the best music ridiculous. 1833 H. Martineau Cinnamon & Pearls ii. 26 Mixed with their chaunt came the mutterings and gabblings of the charmers. 1876 W. Black Madcap Violet xl. 352 A people..prone to gabbling after dinner. 1912 C. A. Reed Amer. Game Birds 17 Otherwise known as ‘Long-tailed Duck’, ‘Old-wife’..and other less common ones, most of which refer to their noisy gabbling. 1968 New Rev. Sept. 103 It would be better if our writers paid less attention to newspapers and political gabblings, and wrote textbooks instead. 2002 Cathedral Music Oct. 68/2 I found the pace of ‘Let Nimrod the Mighty Hunter’ a shade too ambitious, leading to some gabbling of the words. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). gabblingadj. That gabbles (see gabble v.); (of a language, sound, etc.) unintelligible; jabbering; babbling.With quot. 1566, cf. verbal use in quot. 1566 at gabble v. 1a. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [adjective] wordyeOE talewisec1200 i-worded?c1225 babblinga1250 cacklinga1250 chatteringa1250 speakfula1250 word-wooda1250 of many wordsc1350 janglingc1374 tatteringc1380 tongueya1382 ganglinga1398 readya1400 jargaunt1412 talkative1432 open-moutheda1470 clattering1477 trattling?a1513 windy1513 popping1528 smatteringa1529 rattle?1529 communicablea1533 blab1552 gaggling1553 long-tongued?1553 prittle-prattle1556 pattering1558 talking1560 bobling1566 gabbling1566 verbal1572 piet1573 twattling1573 flibber gibber1575 babblative1576 tickle-tongued1577 tattling1581 buzzing1587 long-winded1589 multiloquous1591 discoursive1599 rattling1600 glib1602 flippant1605 talkful1605 nimble-tongued1608 tongue-ripe1610 fliperous1611 garrulous?1611 futile1612 overspeaking1612 feather-tongueda1618 tongue-free1617 long-breatheda1628 well-breathed1635 multiloquious1640 untongue-tied1640 unretentive1650 communicative1651 linguacious1651 glibbed1654 largiloquent1656 multiloquent1656 parlagea1657 loose-clacked1661 nimble-chop1662 twit-twat1665 over-talkativea1667 loquacious1667 loudmouth1668 conversable1673 gash1681 narrative1681 chappy1693 apposite1701 conversative1703 gabbit1710 lubricous1715 gabby?1719 ventose1721 taleful1726 chatty?1741 blethering1759 renable1781 fetch-fire1784 conversational1799 conversant1803 gashing1808 long-lunged1815 talky1815 multi-loquacious1819 prolegomenous1822 talky-talky1831 nimble-mouthed1836 slipper1842 speechful1842 gassy1843 in great force1849 yattering1859 babbly1860 irreticent1864 chattable1867 lubrical1867 chattery1869 loose-mouthed1872 chinny1883 tongue-wagging1885 yappy1909 big-mouthed1914 loose-lipped1919 ear-bashing1945 ear-bending1946 yackety-yacking1953 nattering1959 yacking1959 woofy1960 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [adjective] > given to meaningless repetition gabbling1566 lip-laborious1630 lip-working1642 echolalian1927 echolaliac1931 echolalic1938 1566 in J. Fowler tr. P. Frarinus Oration against Vnlawfull Insurrections Protestantes Table sig. L.viv An other in the Churche ryding armed cryeth out In his gabbling Gascoine Frenche, Pilla tout, pilla tout. 1624 H. Mason New Art of Lying v. 80 When a man..sheweth a defect in his tongue, and maketh a gabbling noyse and vndistinct sound, this..doth import that that man is dumbe. 1728 A. Ramsay Poems II. 138 Dull Coofs, and gabbling Gowks. a1771 T. Smollett Plays & Poems (1777) 249 Nor to the waddling duck or gabbling goose, Did she glad sustenance refuse. a1790 J. H. Beattie Ess. & Fragments (1794) 208 Avoid the gabbling fool who gapes for news. 1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 24 Their gabbling talk did Lubin's cares beguile. 1873 W. Black Princess of Thule xvii. 273 Don't you know the mischief your gabbling tongue might make? 1912 A. Britt Wind's Will xviii. 286 Why do you stand here talking like a pack of gabbling geese? 1963 J. R. R. Tolkien Let. 1 Nov. (1995) 339 Choose a snuffling or gabbling priest or a proud and vulgar friar. 2017 @carlsheever 18 Jan. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Is there a way to tell someone you're a big fan of their work without sounding like a gabbling idiot? Genuinely asking. CompoundsΚΠ 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. iii. 473 The gabbling Crow. They are..very noisy, and seem to imitate the sounds of most syllables in every language, in their gabblings. 1808 T. Coke Hist. W. Indies I. 391 The Gabbling Crow is a native of Jamaica, and very common in the inland parts. 1858 W. Thornbury Buccaneers i. 5 The pigeon moans in the inmost forest, and the gabbling crows croak and scream. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1599adj.1566 |
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