gibberverb [ I ]
uk/ˈdʒɪb.ər/us/ˈdʒɪb.ɚ/mainly disapprovingto speak quickly in a way that cannot be understood, usually when you are very frightened or confused:
Stop gibbering, man, and tell us what you saw.
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Ways of talking
- -mouthed
- babel
- blab
- blather
- declamatory
- drone
- drone on
- hold the floor idiom
- lyrical
- meanderings
- rabbit
- rabbit on
- sink to a whisper idiom
- tattle
- telegrammatic
- throw
- undertone
- waffle
- whisper
- yap
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gibbering
adjective uk/ˈdʒɪb.ə.rɪŋ/us/ˈdʒɪb.ɚ.ɪŋ/
I stood there like a gibbering idiot.