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gabble

/gab-uhl/US // ˈgæb əl //UK // (ˈɡæbəl) //

侃侃而谈,喋喋不休,叽叽喳喳,叽叽喳喳地说个不停

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    gab·bled, gab·bling.

    • : to speak or converse rapidly and unintelligibly; jabber.
    • : to cackle.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    gab·bled, gab·bling.

    • : to utter rapidly and unintelligibly.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : rapid, unintelligible talk.
    • : any quick succession of meaningless sounds.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • “Doing more with less” is often management-gabble to justify arbitrary budget cuts.

  • The excitement and gabble were worse than the Dean case, or Federation, and sickened me, for they were all on the wrong track.

  • But no flight of arrows rattled among the boughs, and all we heard was the gabble of excited voices.

  • The lovely gabble of the cranes and the wild swans comes back to me whenever I think of the place.

  • "You must be drunk yourself to come here waking me up in the middle of the night, to hear this idle gabble," said Louis angrily.

  • Two incidents alone relieved the dead level of idiocy and incomprehensible gabble.