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To talk fast, or to talk without meaning; to prate; to jabber.

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  1. v. i. To talk fast, or to talk without meaning; to prate; to jabber.
  2. v. i. To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; as, gabbling fowls.
  3. n. Loud or rapid talk without meaning.
  4. n. Inarticulate sounds rapidly uttered; as of fowls.
  5. n. rapid and indistinct speech
  6. v. speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
  7. 1. To talk fast, or to talk without meaning; to prate; to jabber. Shak. 2. To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; as, gabbling fowls. Dryden. 1. Loud or rapid talk without meaning. Forthwith a hideous gabble rises loud Among the builders. Milton. 2. Inarticulate sounds rapidly uttered; as of fowls.
  8. n:28/v:72 n rapid and indistinct speech v speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly