different between gabble vs wabble

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

Etymology

Compare German dialect wabbeln (“to wabble”), and English whap. Compare quaver.

Verb

wabble (third-person singular simple present wabbles, present participle wabbling, simple past and past participle wabbled)

1. wobble, move to and fro

Anagrams

• bawble