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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈɡæbəl/Part of speech verb, nounSorted abbeglStarts with GEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

Word origin

From gab + -le. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gabbelje (“to mock”), Dutch gabbelen (“to chatter, babble”), German Low German gabbeln (“to mock”).

Used in a sentence

  • 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.

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