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Definition of jabber in English: jabberverb ˈdʒabəˈdʒæbər [no object]Talk in a rapid, excited, and often incomprehensible way. he jabbered on about football Example sentencesExamples - Try telling the football fan jabbering on at full volume to an uninterested audience in the pub to tone it down and see where it gets you.
- The black girl has followed me from the toilet and is jabbering away like an excited child.
- I thought I was about to be introduced when Katy began jabbering away about Murphy, my dog, who was sitting on the floor next to me.
- In one episode of Frasier, his radio station decides to go for the Latino market, which means excitable men jabbering about soccer.
- The man started wringing his hands, jabbering in some language.
- They keep jabbering about deceit and cleaning up the government.
- For over an hour he jabbered, babbled, screamed and ranted, never completing a full sentence.
- On that trip, I shared a lift with three French men jabbering away in this language I had been learning in class and I couldn't follow a word.
- He's jabbering on about music, how you have to be careful about changing the music because it might upset or destroy the government.
- Big Bill is so desperate for attention these days that he might actually show up, and then you'd have a hard time getting rid of him as he jabbered on into the wee hours while your other guests stifle yawns and sneak peeks at their watches.
- A woman jabbered in French into her hands-free phone.
- She hadn't a clue what they were jabbering about either.
- I spent the first hour jabbering away and trying to determine whether or not gasoline was actually being sold at the station.
- ‘Oh yeah, you can't beat vinyl,’ he jabbers in a red-toothed west coast accent untamed by the phenomenal success of Wet Wet Wet, his band of two decades.
- Your neighbor may spend the whole flight jabbering on their mobile.
- He jabbers, raves, and gestures to no one, in contradiction to the more subdued Hamlet of productions such as the 2000 Ethan Hawke film version.
- I don't believe in superstition and I hate people jabbering about ghouls.
- I started off, walking stealthily in the shadows and saw Luke and George coming out of a house, jabbering animatedly.
- Courtney and I were sitting at lunch one day just after New Years, jabbering away about whether or not we should make resolutions.
- Half the programme was devoted to Liam jabbering on about boy bands, the press, Robbie Williams etc etc.
Synonyms prattle, babble, chatter, twitter, prate, gabble, go on, run on, rattle on/away, yap, jibber-jabber, patter, blather, maunder, ramble, drivel, blab talk rapidly, talk incoherently, talk unintelligibly informal yak, yackety-yak, yabber, yatter, blabber British informal witter, rabbit, chunter, natter, waffle Scottish & Irish informal slabber Australian/New Zealand informal mag archaic twaddle, clack, twattle
noun ˈdʒabəˈdʒæbər mass nounRapid, excited, and often incomprehensible speech. Example sentencesExamples - Maria could see the boy's mouths moving, but the words descended into incomprehensible jabber.
- Demetrius is frustrated with Hermia's jabber and constant chatter and tells her he did nothing of the sort.
- After nearly twenty minutes of this pointless and boring (and, in some cases, untruthful) jabber, the coach blew four quick whistle blasts and gave a long, loud holler.
- Following them were cops, shouting out orders to each other in a loud jabber of falsely intelligent strictness.
- Is it perfectly OK or just plain trashy for the man who once was the leader of the free world to join the jabber on TV?
- Nonetheless, there will be lots of jabber about posturing about the value of precedent at the Senate hearings.
- Some of the Kagan / Lewis conversation about bloggers consisted, for the most part, of often incomprehensible jabber like this.
- Brae sat back happily and listened half-heartedly to Chase's unceasing jabber.
- Now, if you're going to fight me, stop the jibber jabber and let's get started!
- Lost amid the jabber over what the Next Big Thing in passenger vehicles is likely to be, is the humble midsized sedan.
- After that comment, sure enough her sister conjured up the same lecture about swearing to Blair, Blair was just a bit put down when she couldn't walk away from this incessant jabber of her sister's idea on etiquette.
- Isaiah raised his hand, signaling him to stop the jabber, ‘The file has been submitted one to you and a copy to the Archive database.’
- There is so much mindless golf jabber on TV that I would welcome a season-long commentator lockout.
- There I sat in Language Arts listening to the jabber of everyone in the class.
- It was like the endless jabber on the radio, without having a way to turn it off.
- The locals weren't mad about all that foreign jabber or all those people stretched out, covered in Nivea cream and not surfing, but it was all right.
- I shouldn't have distracted myself with useless jabber!
- He was muttering unconnected phrases, like ‘make you love me’ ‘dog… no, mine’ it was insane jabber.
- Tabitha didn't consider what others might think of her looking so happy so soon after her father's passing; she didn't have the chance, with Mister Knighton's constant foolish jabber.
- He thought a moment, ‘But it's so boring without your mindless jabber,’ he whined to her.
Synonyms prattle, babble, chatter, chattering, twitter, twittering, prating, gabble, jibber-jabber, patter, blather, rambling, twaddle, drivel rapid talk, unintelligible talk informal yak, yackety-yak, yabbering, yatter, blabber British informal wittering, rabbiting, nattering, waffle, waffling Australian/New Zealand informal mag archaic clack, twattle
Origin Late 15th century: imitative. chat from Middle English: In medieval times chat was formed as a shorter version of chatter, which itself started life as an imitation of the sound made by people chatting away, rather as jabber (Late Middle English) and twitter (Late Middle English) imitated the sound they described. The chattering classes are liberal, well-educated people, often working in the media, who are fond of expressing their views on any and every subject. This name for them has been around since at least the early 1980s. The success of the website called Twitter has led to heated debate among users as to whether what they do should be called to twitter or to tweet (mid 19th century)—yet another word imitating the sound of birds. See also jargon
Rhymes abba, blabber, dabber, grabber, stabber, yabber Definition of jabber in US English: jabberverbˈjabərˈdʒæbər [no object]Talk rapidly and excitedly but with little sense. he jabbered away to his friends Example sentencesExamples - I don't believe in superstition and I hate people jabbering about ghouls.
- Your neighbor may spend the whole flight jabbering on their mobile.
- A woman jabbered in French into her hands-free phone.
- On that trip, I shared a lift with three French men jabbering away in this language I had been learning in class and I couldn't follow a word.
- Try telling the football fan jabbering on at full volume to an uninterested audience in the pub to tone it down and see where it gets you.
- Big Bill is so desperate for attention these days that he might actually show up, and then you'd have a hard time getting rid of him as he jabbered on into the wee hours while your other guests stifle yawns and sneak peeks at their watches.
- I started off, walking stealthily in the shadows and saw Luke and George coming out of a house, jabbering animatedly.
- I thought I was about to be introduced when Katy began jabbering away about Murphy, my dog, who was sitting on the floor next to me.
- In one episode of Frasier, his radio station decides to go for the Latino market, which means excitable men jabbering about soccer.
- For over an hour he jabbered, babbled, screamed and ranted, never completing a full sentence.
- The man started wringing his hands, jabbering in some language.
- Courtney and I were sitting at lunch one day just after New Years, jabbering away about whether or not we should make resolutions.
- He jabbers, raves, and gestures to no one, in contradiction to the more subdued Hamlet of productions such as the 2000 Ethan Hawke film version.
- Half the programme was devoted to Liam jabbering on about boy bands, the press, Robbie Williams etc etc.
- They keep jabbering about deceit and cleaning up the government.
- ‘Oh yeah, you can't beat vinyl,’ he jabbers in a red-toothed west coast accent untamed by the phenomenal success of Wet Wet Wet, his band of two decades.
- He's jabbering on about music, how you have to be careful about changing the music because it might upset or destroy the government.
- She hadn't a clue what they were jabbering about either.
- The black girl has followed me from the toilet and is jabbering away like an excited child.
- I spent the first hour jabbering away and trying to determine whether or not gasoline was actually being sold at the station.
Synonyms prattle, babble, chatter, twitter, prate, gabble, go on, run on, rattle away, rattle on, yap, jibber-jabber, patter, blather, maunder, ramble, drivel, blab
nounˈjabərˈdʒæbər Fast, excited talk that makes little sense. Example sentencesExamples - Following them were cops, shouting out orders to each other in a loud jabber of falsely intelligent strictness.
- Tabitha didn't consider what others might think of her looking so happy so soon after her father's passing; she didn't have the chance, with Mister Knighton's constant foolish jabber.
- I shouldn't have distracted myself with useless jabber!
- Some of the Kagan / Lewis conversation about bloggers consisted, for the most part, of often incomprehensible jabber like this.
- Is it perfectly OK or just plain trashy for the man who once was the leader of the free world to join the jabber on TV?
- After that comment, sure enough her sister conjured up the same lecture about swearing to Blair, Blair was just a bit put down when she couldn't walk away from this incessant jabber of her sister's idea on etiquette.
- Isaiah raised his hand, signaling him to stop the jabber, ‘The file has been submitted one to you and a copy to the Archive database.’
- He thought a moment, ‘But it's so boring without your mindless jabber,’ he whined to her.
- The locals weren't mad about all that foreign jabber or all those people stretched out, covered in Nivea cream and not surfing, but it was all right.
- Maria could see the boy's mouths moving, but the words descended into incomprehensible jabber.
- Nonetheless, there will be lots of jabber about posturing about the value of precedent at the Senate hearings.
- He was muttering unconnected phrases, like ‘make you love me’ ‘dog… no, mine’ it was insane jabber.
- Now, if you're going to fight me, stop the jibber jabber and let's get started!
- Demetrius is frustrated with Hermia's jabber and constant chatter and tells her he did nothing of the sort.
- There I sat in Language Arts listening to the jabber of everyone in the class.
- After nearly twenty minutes of this pointless and boring (and, in some cases, untruthful) jabber, the coach blew four quick whistle blasts and gave a long, loud holler.
- It was like the endless jabber on the radio, without having a way to turn it off.
- Brae sat back happily and listened half-heartedly to Chase's unceasing jabber.
- There is so much mindless golf jabber on TV that I would welcome a season-long commentator lockout.
- Lost amid the jabber over what the Next Big Thing in passenger vehicles is likely to be, is the humble midsized sedan.
Synonyms prattle, babble, chatter, chattering, twitter, twittering, prating, gabble, jibber-jabber, patter, blather, rambling, twaddle, drivel
Origin Late 15th century: imitative. |