Hypertext Webster Gateway: "gabbling"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Gabble \Gab"ble\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Gabbled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Gabbling}.] [Freq. of gab. See {Gab}, v. i.]
1. To talk fast, or to talk without meaning; to prate; to
jabber. --Shak.

2. To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; as, gabbling
fowls. --Dryden.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

gabbling
adj : talking idly or incoherently; "blithering (or blathering)
idiot"; "jabbering children"; "gabbling housewives"; "a
babbling hospital inmate" [syn: {blathering}, {blithering},
{jabbering}, {babbling}]


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