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gabble
English
Etymology
gab +? -le, frequentative.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??æb?l/
- Rhymes: -æb?l
Verb
gabble (third-person singular simple present gabbles, present participle gabbling, simple past and past participle gabbled)
- (transitive, intransitive) To talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning.
- 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I, scene II :
- 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
- 2013, J. M. Coetzee, The Childhood of Jesus. Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company. chapter 16. p. 144.
- Does she regard him simply as a workman come to do a job for her, someone whom she need never lay eyes on again; or is she gabbling to hide discomfiture?
- 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I, scene II :
- To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity.
- 1709, John Dryden, Pastorals
- gabble like a goose
- 1709, John Dryden, Pastorals
Translations
Synonyms
- babble; See also Thesaurus:prattle
Noun
gabble (uncountable)
- Confused or unintelligible speech.
- 1914, G. K. Chesterton, The Wisdom of Father Brown
- a lot of gabble from witnesses
- 1914, G. K. Chesterton, The Wisdom of Father Brown
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:chatter
Yola
Etymology
Cognate with English gabble.
Noun
gabble
- talk, prattle
Verb
gabble
- talk. prattle
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
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gaggle
English
Etymology
From Middle English gagelen (“to cackle; cackle like a goose”). Compare Dutch gaggelen (“to cackle”), Icelandic gagl (“small goose; gosling”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??æ?l?/
- Rhymes: -æ??l
- Hyphenation: gag?gle
Noun
gaggle (plural gaggles)
- (collective) A group of geese when they are on the ground or on the water.
- (by extension) Any group or gathering of related things.
- Synonym: bunch
Derived terms
- press gaggle
Translations
Verb
gaggle (third-person singular simple present gaggles, present participle gaggling, simple past and past participle gaggled)
- To make a noise like a goose; to cackle.
- Geese do gaggle
- 1733, Jonathan Swift, "A New Simile for the Ladies with Useful Annotations by Dr. Sheridan", note 7 (in The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Vol. II):
- When a friend asked Socrates, how he could bear the scolding of his wife Xantippe? he retorted, and asked him, how he could bear the gaggling of his geese?
Translations
See also
- skein
- wedge
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