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单词 gabble
释义 gab·ble
I. \ˈgabəl\ verb
(gabbled ; gabbled ; gabbling \-b(ə)liŋ\ ; gabbles)
Etymology: probably of imitative origin
intransitive verb
1. : to talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning : jabber, chatter
 < with a mighty throat clearing, he would gabble through his prayer — Ernest Beaglehole >
 < he loves to gabble with housewives at church suppers — Andrew Hamilton >
 < spent his time gabbling in bars >
 < the clerk had gabbled about a fee due >
 < saying nothing comprehensible, just babbling and gabbling, half unconsciously — Arnold Bennett >
2. : to utter inarticulate sounds (as of a chicken) rapidly
 < a skein of duck came across, gabbling softly to themselves in the high air — Naomi Mitchison >
transitive verb
: to say with incoherent rapidity : babble
 < our excitement exploded and we gabbled the story over and over — Santha Rama Rau >
II. noun
(-s)
1. : loud or rapid talk with little or no meaning : nonsense talk
 < subjected to gabble about fifteenth-century politics — John McCarten >
2. : meaningless sounds rapidly uttered (as by chickens) or given out (as by a stream running over rocks)
 < discriminating between music and gabble — R.L.Ives >
 < listening to the avid gabble of water running from a gargoyle at the corner of the schoolhouse — Eve Langley >
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