Gab - English meaning

verb

Talk rapidly and continuously in a foolish, excited, or incomprehensible way.

Usage examples:

They babbled on about their holiday

noun

(of a flowing water) make a continuous murmuring sound.

Usage examples:

The shallow river babbled over smooth rocks

combining form

Forming nouns denoting confusing or pretentious jargon, especially that characteristic of a particular field or group.

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Psychobabble

noun

The action or fact of talking rapidly and continuously in a foolish, excited, or incomprehensible way.

Usage examples:

The constant babbling of the kids

adjective

Talking rapidly and continuously in a foolish, excited, or incomprehensible way.

Usage examples:

The noise of babbling tourists

verb

Talk rapidly and continuously in a foolish, excited, or incomprehensible way.

Usage examples:

They babbled on about their holiday

verb

Reveal secrets by indiscreet talk.

Usage examples:

She blabbed to the press

noun

A person who blabs.

Usage examples:

Sam should not have gone soft on a blab who squealed

verb

To talk too much or speak without thinking

Usage examples:

[ t ] she just blabs to anyone who will listen.

verb

Talk foolishly, indiscreetly, or excessively.

Usage examples:

She blabbered on and on

noun

A person who talks foolishly or excessively.

Usage examples:

The blabber wastes his own time, and the listener's time

verb

To talk a lot, especially in a way people find annoying or embarrassing

Usage examples:

He's always blabbering on about computers.

noun

Used to refer to something which is boring or without meaningful content.

Usage examples:

The first 20 pages are a lot of blah about budgets and stuff like that

adjective

Dull or unexciting.

Usage examples:

The game has been very blah

exclamation

Used to substitute for actual words in contexts where they are felt to be too tedious or lengthy to give in full.

Usage examples:

He said nations great and small could come together to blah blah blah

adjective

Boring or ordinary

Usage examples:

I thought the show was blah.

verb

Talk in a long-winded way without making very much sense.

Usage examples:

She began blathering on about spirituality and life after death

noun

Long-winded talk with no real substance.

Usage examples:

All the blather coming out of washington about crime

verb

To talk for a long time in a silly or annoying way

Usage examples:

What on earth are you blathering on about?, stop blathering, woman!

verb

Talk in a long-winded way without making very much sense.

Usage examples:

There's plenty of stuff i could blether about from today

noun

Long-winded talk with no real substance.

Usage examples:

Some stupid blether about puns surrounding the beatles

noun

→  blather informal

verb

Talk in a friendly and informal way.

Usage examples:

She chatted to her mother on the phone every day

noun

An informal conversation.

Usage examples:

He dropped in for a chat

noun

A small old world songbird of the thrush family, with black, white, and brown coloration and a harsh call.

Usage examples:

Old world warblers and chats are an excellent representative system to test these hypotheses.

verb

Talk informally about unimportant matters.

Usage examples:

She was chattering about her holiday

noun

Informal talk.

Usage examples:

He was full of inconsequential but amusing chatter

verb

To talk continuously and usually for no serious purpose

Usage examples:

The boys and girls kept chattering during the movie., birds chattered in the trees., the printer wa…

verb

Talk informally about unimportant matters.

Usage examples:

She was chattering about her holiday

noun

Informal talk.

Usage examples:

He was full of inconsequential but amusing chatter

noun

A series of short, quick high-pitched sounds.

Usage examples:

The starlings' constant chatter

verb

Talk in a friendly and informal way.

Usage examples:

She chatted to her mother on the phone every day

noun

An informal conversation.

Usage examples:

He dropped in for a chat

noun

A small old world songbird of the thrush family, with black, white, and brown coloration and a harsh call.

Usage examples:

Old world warblers and chats are an excellent representative system to test these hypotheses.

noun

Nonsense.

Usage examples:

Don't talk such drivel!

verb

Talk nonsense.

Usage examples:

He was drivelling on about the glory days

noun

Something written or said that is completely worthless; nonsense

Usage examples:

The papers are filled with drivel about movie stars.

verb

Talk rapidly and unintelligibly.

Usage examples:

He gabbled on in a panicky way until he was dismissed

noun

Rapid unintelligible talk.

Usage examples:

She wasn't very good at the random gabble of teenagers

verb

To speak quickly and not clearly so that it is difficult to understand

Usage examples:

Gabble away she started gabbling away at me in spanish and i didn't understand a word., gina, as us…

verb

Talk rapidly and unintelligibly.

Usage examples:

He gabbled on in a panicky way until he was dismissed

noun

Rapid unintelligible talk.

Usage examples:

She wasn't very good at the random gabble of teenagers

verb

Present participle of gabble

Usage examples:

She started gabbling away at me in spanish and i didn't understand a word., gina, as usual, was gab…

noun

A substance or matter in a state in which it will expand freely to fill the whole of a container, having no fixed shape (unlike a solid) and no fixed volume (unlike a liquid).

Usage examples:

Hot balls of gas that become stars

adjective

Short for gasoline.

Usage examples:

We stopped for gas

noun

A form of matter that is neither solid nor liquid and can increase in size to fill any container

Usage examples:

We’re running low on gas., hundreds of thousands of soldiers were gassed in world war i.

noun

Unintelligible or meaningless speech or writing; nonsense.

Usage examples:

He talks gibberish

noun

Confused or meaningless speech or writing

Usage examples:

See if you can make out what he’s saying – it sounds like gibberish to me.

noun

Spoken or written words that have no meaning

Usage examples:

Talk gibberish i was so nervous, i just started talking gibberish.

noun

Casual or unconstrained conversation or reports about other people, typically involving details that are not confirmed as being true.

Usage examples:

He became the subject of much local gossip

verb

Engage in gossip.

Usage examples:

They would start gossiping about her as soon as she left

verb

Light informal conversation for social occasions

verb

Engage in gossip.

Usage examples:

They would start gossiping about her as soon as she left

noun

Casual or unconstrained conversation or reports about other people, typically involving details that are not confirmed as being true.

Usage examples:

He became the subject of much local gossip

verb

Present participle of gossip

Usage examples:

Stop gossiping and do your work., people have started to gossip about us.

verb

Talk in a rapid, excited, and often incomprehensible way.

Usage examples:

He jabbered on about football

noun

Rapid, excited, and often incomprehensible speech.

Usage examples:

Now, if you're going to fight me, stop the jibber jabber and let's get started!

verb

To speak or say something quickly in a way that is difficult to understand

Usage examples:

Jay was jabbering on about this and that.

verb

Talk in a rapid, excited, and often incomprehensible way.

Usage examples:

He jabbered on about football

noun

Rapid, excited, and often incomprehensible speech.

Usage examples:

Now, if you're going to fight me, stop the jibber jabber and let's get started!

noun

Rapid, excited, and often incomprehensible speech.

Usage examples:

Now, if you're going to fight me, stop the jibber jabber and let's get started!

noun

Each of the upper and lower bony structures in vertebrates forming the framework of the mouth and containing the teeth.

Usage examples:

In others, the way the upper and lower jaws meet can cause teeth to look unsightly and lead to an i…

verb

Talk at length; chatter.

Usage examples:

I was too busy to spend time jawing with the rest of the crew

noun

Either of the two bony parts bordering the mouth that hold your teeth in place

Usage examples:

The upper/lower jaw

verb

Talk foolishly or at tedious length about something.

Usage examples:

I heard him prate on for at least an hour and a half

verb

Present participle of prate

Usage examples:

Inevitably there's some caller prating on about the decline in moral standards.

verb

Talk at length in a foolish or inconsequential way.

Usage examples:

She began to prattle on about her visit to the dentist

noun

Foolish or inconsequential talk.

Usage examples:

Do you intend to keep up this childish prattle?

verb

To talk in a silly way or like a child for a long time about things that are not important or without saying anything important

Usage examples:

She'd have prattled on about her new job for the whole afternoon if i'd let her., stop your prattli…

noun

A gregarious burrowing plant-eating mammal, with long ears, long hind legs, and a short tail.

Usage examples:

The chances of survival for south africa's most endangered mammal, the riverine rabbit, looks even …

verb

Hunt rabbits.

Usage examples:

Locate the area where you can go rabbiting

noun

A small animal with long ears and a short tail, that lives in holes in the ground

adjective

(of writing or speech) lengthy and confused or inconsequential.

Usage examples:

A rambling six-hour speech

noun

The activity of walking in the countryside for pleasure.

Usage examples:

A rambling club

verb

Walk for pleasure in the countryside.

Usage examples:

I spent most of my spare time rambling and climbing

verb

Speak in order to give information or express ideas or feelings; converse or communicate by spoken words.

Usage examples:

The two men talked

noun

Communication by spoken words; conversation or discussion.

Usage examples:

There was a slight but noticeable lull in the talk

adjective

Engaging in speech.

Usage examples:

The best part of the movie are the ents - big, talking trees.

noun

The action of talking; speech or discussion.

Usage examples:

I'll do the talking—you just back me up

verb

Speak in order to give information or express ideas or feelings; converse or communicate by spoken words.

Usage examples:

The two men talked

noun

Trivial or foolish speech or writing; nonsense.

Usage examples:

He dismissed the novel as self-indulgent twaddle

verb

Talk or write in a trivial or foolish way.

Usage examples:

What is that old fellow twaddling about?

noun

Speech or writing that is silly or not true

Usage examples:

She dismissed the findings as utter twaddle/a load of old twaddle.

verb

Speak at length about trivial matters.

Usage examples:

She'd been wittering on about jennifer and her illness

verb

To talk for a long time about things that are not important

Usage examples:

He'd been wittering on about his neighbours for half the morning.

noun

A large domesticated wild ox with shaggy hair, humped shoulders, and large horns, used in tibet as a pack animal and for its milk, meat, and hide.

Usage examples:

Milk products were common in the form of sour cream and butter from cows and yaks.

verb

Talk at length about trivial or boring subjects.

Usage examples:

She wondered what he was yakking about

noun

A type of cattle with long hair and long horns, found mainly in tibet

verb

Talk foolishly or incessantly.

Usage examples:

He was yammering on as if he had an enthralled audience at his feet

noun

Foolish or incessant talk.

Usage examples:

The look on his face stopped bob's nervous yammer

verb

To talk continuously for a long time in a way that is annoying to other people

Usage examples:

She never stops yammering about that dog of hers., he just kept yammering on, though no one was lis…