different between gable vs gabble

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?.b?l/
• Rhymes: -e?b?l

Etymology 1

The southern English term gable probably came from Old French gable (compare modern French gâble), from Old Norse gafl. The northern form gavel is perhaps also akin to Old Norse gafl, masculine, of the same meaning (confer Swedish gavel, Danish gavl). See gafl for more etymology information.

Noun

gable (plural gables)

1. (architecture) The triangular area at the peak of an external wall adjacent to, and terminating, two sloped roof surfaces (pitches).

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• pediment
• peaked roof
• pitched roof

Etymology 2

Noun

gable (plural gables)

1. A cable.

Anagrams

• Gebal, bagel, gabel, galbe, gleba

German

Verb

gable

1. inflection of gabeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

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