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English Dictionary: gabble by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gabble
n
  1. rapid and indistinct speech [syn: jabber, jabbering, gabble]
v
  1. speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
    Synonym(s): chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle- tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble
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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gabble \Gab"ble\, n.
      1. Loud or rapid talk without meaning.
  
                     Forthwith a hideous gabble rises loud Among the
                     builders.                                          --Milton.
  
      2. Inarticulate sounds rapidly uttered; as of fowls.
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