different between gabble vs rabble

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)

1. (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?

2. To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity.
   • 1709, John Dryden, Pastorals

     gabble like a goose

Translations

Synonyms

• babble; See also Thesaurus:prattle

Noun

gabble (uncountable)

1. Confused or unintelligible speech.
   • 1914, G. K. Chesterton, The Wisdom of Father Brown

     a lot of gabble from witnesses

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:chatter

Yola

Etymology

Cognate with English gabble.

Noun

gabble

1. talk, prattle

Verb

gabble

1. 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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æb?l/
• Rhymes: -æb?l

Etymology 1

First attested since 1300s, from Middle English rablen (“to ramble; rave; speak in a confused manner”), cognate with Middle Dutch rabbelen (“to talk; chatter; trifle”), Low German rabbeln, robbeln (“to chatter; prattle”).

Alternative forms

• ravel

Verb

rabble (third-person singular simple present rabbles, present participle rabbling, simple past and past participle rabbled)

1. (intransitive) To speak in a confused manner; talk incoherently; utter nonsense
2. (transitive) To speak confusedly or incoherently; gabble or chatter out

Etymology 2

From Middle English rabel, probably from the verb (see above).

Noun

rabble (plural rabbles)

1. (obsolete) A bewildered or meaningless string of words.
2. (obsolete) A pack of animals; or any confused collection of things.
3. A mob; a disorderly crowd. [from late 14^th c.]
4. (derogatory) The mass of common people; the lowest class of populace. [from 1550s]

   Synonyms: plebs, riffraff; see also Thesaurus:commonalty

Derived terms

• rabble rouser
• rabblesome

Translations

Etymology 3

Old French roable (modern French râble), from Latin rutabulum (“a poker”).

Noun

rabble (plural rabbles)

1. An iron bar used in puddling.

Verb

rabble (third-person singular simple present rabbles, present participle rabbling, simple past and past participle rabbled)

1. (transitive) To stir with a rabble.

Derived terms

• rabbler

Further reading

• rabble in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• rabble in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• rabble at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• barbel, barble