different between chatterer vs gabbler

English

Etymology

chatter +? -er

Noun

chatterer (plural chatterers)

1. A person who chatters; a chatterbox.
   • 1845, Marie Joseph Eugène Sue, The Mysteries of Paris

     Yes, I am a chatterer, indeed, to interrupt you so often, Monsieur.

   • “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, […] the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts, the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosus, […]!”

   • 1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian, Collins, 1998, Chapter 6,

     Indeed the difficulty was to get him to stop talking, for, like all squirrels, he was a chatterer.

2. Any of several passerine birds, mostly from South America; especially the cotingas.
   • 1832, John Timbs, Knowledge for the People

     Why is the variegated chatterer of South America also called the bell-bird?

   • 1846, Henry Leonard Meyer, Coloured illustrations of British birds and their eggs

     The flight of the Chatterer bears much resemblance to that of the starling.

Translations

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:chatterbox

Anagrams

• charrette, retraceth

English

Etymology

gabble +? -er

Noun

gabbler (plural gabblers)

1. One who gabbles, or prates loquaciously on a trifling subject.

Usage notes

Note the differences implied between gabblers and other prattlers in R. F. Burton's translation of The Arabian Nights (at the end of the tailor's tale).

Synonyms

• chatterer
• jabberer

Translations

References

• Webster, Noah (1828) , “gabbler”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language (Note the somewhat different definition.)
• “gabbler” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.

Anagrams

• grabble