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单词 jabber
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jabber
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When someone starts to jabber, they start talking on and on about this or that, or that or this, in an excited, sometimes incoherent way. Jabber is a close cousin to blabber.
When someone jabbers, sometimes their words seem to fly out of their mouths like quick punches (jabs!) from a boxer. Some examples of jabber? You know, like when someone has a hobby that you don’t really care about or understand but they won’t quit talking about it? Yeah, they jabber. Or your best friend is relating, without end, his excitement about the coming tiddlywinks championship and you comprehend neither the game nor its importance? That friend jabbers, too.
WORD FAMILY
jabber: jabbered, jabberer, jabbering, jabbers+/jabberer: jabberers/jabbering: jabberings
USAGE EXAMPLES
Across from her, a man in a wheelchair trembled violently and kept up a jabbering monologue.
New York Times(Dec 15, 2016)
Politics becomes irrelevant to people’s lives; debate is reduced to the jabber of a remote elite.
The Guardian(Nov 14, 2016)
Contrary to the jabberings of the embrace debate crowd on cable, there is no nobility to losing if you don’t have to.
The Guardian(Nov 10, 2016)
1v talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
Syn|Hyper
mouth off, rabbit on, rant, rave, spout
mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize
express in speech
2n rapid and indistinct speech
Syn|Hyper
gabble, jabbering
gibber, gibberish
unintelligible talking
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