gabble

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Confused or unintelligible speech. uncountable
    — a lot of gabble from witnesses
动词 v.
  1. To talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning. ambitransitive
    — 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
  2. To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity.
    — gabbling fowls

词形变化

gabbles present,singular,third-person gabbling participle,present gabbled participle,past gabbled past

词汇关系

近义词
babble
衍生词
gabblement gabbler outgabble

词源

词源 1
From gab + -le. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gabbelje (“to mock”), Dutch gabbelen (“to chatter, babble”), German Low German gabbeln (“to mock”).
词源 2
From gab + -le. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gabbelje (“to mock”), Dutch gabbelen (“to chatter, babble”), German Low German gabbeln (“to mock”).
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