jabbering
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7.9
- noun
- /ˈdʒæbərɪŋ/
- Informal
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- In the crowded café, I could hardly concentrate due to the jabbering of patrons at nearby tables.
- Quit your jabbering
- stop your jabbering
Examples
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Well, sticking around here jabbering would be a grave mistake.
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When babies start cooing, jabbering, and talking, life changes for the parents forever.
Blog text (19) -
Suddenly, all their jabbering stopped.
Fiction book (1995) -
The jabbering must be in her head!
Fiction book (1998) -
Nobody tries to understand his jabbering.
Fiction book (2001) -
Enough of your incessant jabbering!
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People around here are riled up enough without your jabbering.
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Maybe he was going to end up sad, old, and lonely, living on his own and jabbering to the birds like a lunatic.
Fiction book (1998) -
We learn from their jabbering to each other that they have driven sixty miles to see the snow on Yarnell Hill, north of town, an excursion my blizzard-bred mother finds so comical that she sneaks a giggle to me between licks on her ice cream.
Fiction book (1993) -
The children's jabbering filled the playground, making it hard to hear the teacher's instructions.
Synonyms
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7.2
Speech or writing that does not make sense
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4.6
A soft, unclear sound made when someone speaks
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7.8
A rapid, unclear talk that is hard to understand
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9.9
Nonsense language that sounds like real speech but has no clear meaning
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3.6
Speaking quietly and not clearly so people cannot understand
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9.9
Talking too much in a way that is hard to stop and hard to follow
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9.3
Fast, unclear talking that is hard to understand
Speech that is hard to follow because the ideas do not connect
Speech made of baby-like, unclear sounds that do not make sense
Continuous trivial talk that says nothing important
Antonyms
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Etymology
Jabbering comes from a word that copies the sound of quick, excited talking — it is like the simple English words gab and gabble, which mean 'to talk'. A helpful way to remember it is to imagine someone making quick, messy mouth sounds, which is why jabbering means 'rapid and unclear speech'.