gabble
Noun
- rapid and indistinct speech
- Confused or unintelligible speech.
Verb
Verb Forms: gabbled, gabbling, gabbles
- To talk rapidly and inarticulately; to jabber.
- speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
- To talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning.
- To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity.
Examples
- gabbling fowls
- The excitement of a triple-word score often made players gabble their next move ideas.
Origin / Etymology
From gab + -le. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gabbelje (“to mock”), Dutch gabbelen (“to chatter, babble”), German Low German gabbeln (“to mock”).
Synonyms
blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gibber, jabber, jabbering, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle, babble
Scrabble Score: 11
gabble: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordgabble: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
gabble: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary