gabbling 1 of 2

noun

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as in drivelling

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verb

present participle of gabble
1
as in chatting
to engage in casual or rambling conversation heard her parents' guests still gabbling in the living room late into the night

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2
as in drooling
to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly during the filming of the party scene the extras were told to just gabble and act like they were having a great time

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  1. chatting
  2. babbling
  3. talking
  4. prattle
  5. jabber
  6. chatter
Verb
  • They were spotted smiling, chatting and generally enjoying themselves.
    — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Monica Barbaro, who plays Joan Baez, was beside Fanning, and at various times during the show, the trio of ladies were seen chatting, smiling and laughing together.
    — Julia Moore, People.com, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of chatting
Noun
  • It’s been almost a quarter-century since Renée Zellweger first stepped into the shoes of the wine-guzzling, smoking, babbling, pratfall-prone and terminally awkward title character in Bridget Jones’s Diary.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Today, her daughter, Dana, is growing up like any other Swiss suburban child, in Basel now, splashing around in toddler swim classes and speaking to her mother in a babbling mix of English and Ukrainian.
    — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Nov. 2024
Definition of babbling
Verb
  • Create Polls and Ask Questions Polls get people talking, and LinkedIn’s algorithm rewards it.
    — William Arruda, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
  • Join our Space Forums to keep talking space on the latest missions, night sky and more!
    — Leonard David, Space.com, 3 Jan. 2025
Definition of talking
Noun
  • She was getting winded on our walk, and her prattle was broken up by heavy breaths.
    — Joshua Cohen, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
  • The larcenous prattle is, in this sense, a typically Wiig-ian set piece: sunny, strained and flailing for dignity.
    — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 20 Mar. 2024
Definition of prattle
Noun
  • Worse, such jabber crowds out essential coverage of genuine threats to democracy and the visions of the two parties.
    — Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
  • Jacobs-Jenkins renders him as a wry, friendly figure who occasionally takes over the bodies of the other characters to explain what is happening beneath their jabber.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 5 June 2023
Definition of jabber
Noun
  • The combat is usually riddled with party chatter and characters shouting their special moves, which creates a high-energy crescendo of sights and sounds when paired with the excellent battle music.
    — PCMAG, PCMAG, 18 Mar. 2025
  • This set off some table-wide chatter about the most recent World Series, which the Yankees lost to the Dodgers in somewhat humiliating fashion, capped off by a disastrous error-riddled inning that saw a five-run lead evaporate in the decisive Game 5.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 17 Mar. 2025
Definition of chatter
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