different between mabble vs gabble

English

Etymology

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Verb

mabble (third-person singular simple present mabbles, present participle mabbling, simple past and past participle mabbled)

1. (transitive) To wrap up.

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