gabblerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

gabbler (plural gabblers)

1. One who gabbles, or prates loquaciously on a trifling subject.
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 70:

     To Bradly, Podson was a minor pub gabbler out of a hundred such. He had boozed away an evening with Podson because he was an attendant parasite on Doctor Ramsey.

同意語

• chatterer
• jabberer

参照

• Noah Webster (1828), “gabbler”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language: […], volume I (A–I), New York, N.Y.: […] S. Converse; printed by Hezekiah Howe […], →OCLC.
• “gabbler”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “gabbler”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

アナグラム

• grabble