˜yÐÄvlog

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gibble-gabble

[ gib-uhl-gab-uhl ]

noun

  1. senseless chatter.


verb (used without object)

gibble-gabbled, gibble-gabbling.
  1. to engage in gibble-gabble.
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ²µ¾±²úb±ô±ð-²µ²¹²úb±ô±ð°ù noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of gibble-gabble1

First recorded in 1590–1600; gradational compound from gabble
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Example Sentences

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Gibble-gabble yielded place to political economy.

Oh, yes," replied David with a touch of scorn, "he was honest enough fur 's money matters was concerned; but he hadn't no tack, nor no sense, an' many a time he done more mischief with his gibble-gabble than if he'd took fifty dollars out an' out.

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GIBBLE-GABBLE, s. noisy confused talk among a party.

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I hate a gibble-gabble and a rimble-ramble talk.

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Panurge, at his issuing forth of Raminagrobis's chamber, said, as if he had been horribly affrighted, By the virtue of God, I believe that he is an heretic; the devil take me, if I do not! he doth so villainously rail at the Mendicant Friars and Jacobins, who are the two hemispheres of the Christian world; by whose gyronomonic circumbilvaginations, as by two celivagous filopendulums, all the autonomatic metagrobolism of the Romish Church, when tottering and emblustricated with the gibble-gabble gibberish of this odious error and heresy, is homocentrically poised.

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