noun
Meaning 1
Confused or unintelligible speech.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
gabble
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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/ˈɡæbəl/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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rhymes with -æbəl
verb
Meaning 2
To talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- gabbling fowls
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
rapid and indistinct speech
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: jabber, jabbering
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: gibberish, gibber
verb
Meaning 5
speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
Narrower terms: babble, blather, smatter, blether, blither
History
Etymology
From gab + -le. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gabbelje (“to mock”), Dutch gabbelen (“to chatter, babble”), German Low German gabbeln (“to mock”).
Across languages
Translations
30 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Polish: bełkot — Translations
- Spanish: farfulla — Translations
- Bulgarian: бърборя (bǎrborja) — talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning
- Bulgarian: дърдоря (dǎrdorja) — talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning
- Czech: mlít — talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning
- Czech: žvanit — talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning
- Finnish: lörpötellä — talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning
- Georgian: ყბედობა (q̇bedoba) — talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning
- Georgian: ლაყბობა (laq̇boba) — talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning
- Māori: kunanu — talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning
- Māori: hautete — talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning
- Māori: hote — talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning
- Māori: kōtetetete — talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning
- Māori: tarawhete — talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning
- Māori: tarawhetewhete — talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning
- Polish: gęgać — talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning
- Polish: trajkotać — talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning
- Polish: nawijać — talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning
- Spanish: farfullar — talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning
- Spanish: hablar atropelladamente — talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning
- Bulgarian: крякам (krjakam) — to utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity
- Czech: drmolit — to utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity
- Georgian: ყბედობა (q̇bedoba) — to utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity
- Georgian: ლაყბობა (laq̇boba) — to utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity
- Georgian: ლუღლუღი (luɣluɣi) — to utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity
- Georgian: ბუტბუტი (buṭbuṭi) — to utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity
- Hungarian: hadar — to utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity
- Polish: bełkotać — to utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity
- Spanish: farfullar — to utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity
- Spanish: hablar atropelladamente — to utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity