gabbling

  • 21Rhubarb — 1. confused gabbling noise, as of people talking in the background; 2. nonsense; rubbish …

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  • 22rhubarb — Australian Slang 1. confused gabbling noise, as of people talking in the background; 2. nonsense; rubbish …

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  • 23talkative — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. talky, verbose (see loquacity). II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. voluble, loquacious, wordy, verbose, garrulous, verbal, chattering, glib, chatty, long winded, effusive, long tongued, gossipy, talky*,… …

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  • 24gabble — {{11}}gabble (n.) c.1600, from GABBLE (Cf. gabble) (v.). {{12}}gabble (v.) 1570s, frequentative of GAB (Cf. gab) (q.v.), or else imitative. Related: Gabbled; gabbling …

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  • 25ȝoȝelinge — sb. == chattering, gabbling. O. and N. 40. Probably the same as the later ‘gaggle,’ which is used of a confused noise of people talking, in the Poem on the Deposition of Richard II. p. 18, and of geese, in Churchyard’s Pleasant Conceit penned in… …

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  • 26gabble — [[t]gæ̱b(ə)l[/t]] gabbles, gabbling, gabbled VERB If you gabble, you say things so quickly that it is difficult for people to understand you. [INFORMAL] Marcello sat on his knee and gabbled excitedly... [V adv] She gabbles on about drug dealers… …

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  • 27jackeroo — The word jackeroo was originally a Queensland term referring to a white man who lived beyond the bounds of close settlement. Later, a jackeroo was a young man (frequently English and of independent means) seeking to gain experience by working in… …

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  • 28fiddle-faddle — I. n. (Colloq.) Nonsense, trifling, frivolity, stuff, twaddle, twattle, prate, gabble, gibberish, gibble gabble. II. a. (Colloq.) Foolish, nonsensical, trifling, frivolous, trivial, idle, fiddling, twattling, prating, gabbling …

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  • 29talk — 1. verb 1) I was talking to a friend Syn: speak, chat, chatter, gossip, prattle, babble, rattle on, blather; informal yak, gab, jaw, chew the fat, natter, rap 2) you re talking garbage Syn …

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  • 30chat — vb Chat, gab, chatter, patter, prate, prattle, babble, gabble, jabber, gibber denote to emit a loose and ready flow of inconsequential talk or as nouns the talk so emitted. To chat is to talk in light, easy, and pleasant fashion {in easy mirth we …

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