gabble
/ˈɡæbəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.53 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity.
Example Sentences
- "I pitied thee, took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour one thing or other; when thou didst not, savage, know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like a thing most brutish"
- "Then he fell to gabbling strange and dreadful things which were not clearly understandable."
- "Americans are always drinking in crossroads saloons on Sunday afternoon; they bring their kids; they gabble and brawl over brews; everything’s fine."
- "Does she regard him simply as a workman come to do a job for her, someone whom she need never lay eyes on again; or is she gabbling to hide discomfiture?"
- "gabbling fowls"
- "I not to Cinna’s Ears, nor Varus dare aſpire; / But gabble like a Gooſe; amidſt the Svvan-like Quire."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *gabbōną Proto-West Germanic *gabbōn Old English gabbander. Middle English gabbender. English gab Proto-Germanic *-lōną Old English -lian Middle English -len English -le English gabble From gab + -le. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gabbelje (“to mock”), Dutch gabbelen (“to chatter, babble”), German Low German gabbeln (“to mock”).