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発音

• IPA: /ˈɡæbəl/
• 韻: -æbəl

動詞

gabble (third-person singular simple present gabbles, present participle gabbling, simple past and past participle gabbled)

1. (ambitransitive) To talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning.
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [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

   • 1900, Mark Twain, chapter 4, in The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg:

     Then he fell to gabbling strange and dreadful things which were not clearly understandable.

   • 1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC:

     Americans are always drinking in crossroads saloons on Sunday afternoon; they bring their kids; they gabble and brawl over brews; everything’s fine.

   • 2013, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 16, in The Childhood of Jesus, Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company, page 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.

   gabbling fowls

   • 1697, Virgil, “The Ninth Pastoral. Or, Lycidas, and Moeris.”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 43:

     I not to Cinna’s Ears, nor Varus dare aſpire; / But gabble like a Gooſe; amidſt the Svvan-like Quire.

同意語

• babble; See also Thesaurus:prattle

派生語

名詞

gabble (uncountable)

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

     a lot of gabble from witnesses

   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 26:

     [T]he driver was delayed there by a skimpy little woman with a thin piping voice practised in the art of defeating escape from it by a ceaseless stream of gabble.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:chatter

派生語

• gibble-gabble