Word Meanings - GABBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Etym: 1. To talk fast, or to talk without meaning; to prate; to jabber. Shak. 2. To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; as, gabbling fowls. Dryden.
Related words: (words related to GABBLE)
- UTTERNESS
The quality or state of being utter, or extreme; extremity; utmost; uttermost. - UTTERLY
In an utter manner; to the full extent; fully; totally; as, utterly ruined; it is utterly vain. - PRATER
One who prates. Shak. - INARTICULATELY
In an inarticulate manner. Hammond. - INARTICULATE
1. Not uttered with articulation or intelligible distinctness, as speech or words. Music which is inarticulate poesy. Dryden. Not jointed or articulated; having no distinct body segments; as, an inarticulate worm. Without a hinge; -- said of an - INARTICULATED
Not articulated; not jointed or connected by a joint. - WITHOUT-DOOR
Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak. - UTTER
1. Outer. "Thine utter eyen." Chaucer. "By him a shirt and utter mantle laid." Chapman. As doth an hidden moth The inner garment fret, not th' utter touch. Spenser. 2. Situated on the outside, or extreme limit; remote from the center; outer. - WITHOUTFORTH
Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer. - RAPIDITY
The quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of growth or improvement. Syn. -- -- Rapidness; haste; speed; celerity; velocity; swiftness; fleetness; quickness; agility. - UTTERMOST
Extreme; utmost; being; in the farthest, greatest, or highest degree; as, the uttermost extent or end. "In this uttermost distress." Milton. - JABBERINGLY
In a jabbering manner. - JABBERER
One who jabbers. - MEAN
menen, AS. mænan to recite, tell, intend, wish; akin to OS. menian to have in mind, mean, D. meenen, G. meinen, OHG. meinan, Icel. meina, 1. To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you - MEANDROUS; MEANDRY
Winding; flexuous. - UTTERMORE
Further; outer; utter. Holland. - UTTERLESS
Incapable of being uttered. A clamoring debate of utterless things. Milton. - JABBERNOWL
See JOBBERNOWL - MEANDER
Fretwork. See Fret. (more info) 1. A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries. Sir M. Hale. While lingering rivers in meanders glide. Sir R. Blackmore. 2. A tortuous or intricate movement. - UTTERER
One who utters. Spenser. - MISDEMEAN
To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self. - DEMEANURE
Behavior. Spenser. - UNUTTERABLE
Not utterable; incapable of being spoken or voiced; inexpressible; ineffable; unspeakable; as, unutterable anguish. Sighed and looked unutterable things. Thomson. -- Un*ut"ter*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*ut"ter*a*bly, adv. - MUTTERER
One who mutters. - REMEANT
Coming back; returning. "Like the remeant sun." C. Kingsley. - CONSTUPRATE
To ravish; to debauch. Burton. - GUTTER
1. A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough. 2. A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water. Gutters running with ale. Macaulay. 3. Any narrow channel or groove; - BUTTER-SCOTCH
A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter. Dickens. - STRAW-CUTTER
An instrument to cut straw for fodder. - ARAMAEAN; ARAMEAN
Of or pertaining to the Syrians and Chaldeans, or to their language; Aramaic. -- n. - SWARD-CUTTER
A plow for turning up grass land. A lawn mower. - PUTTER-ON
An instigator. Shak. - SLUTTERY
The qualities and practices of a slut; sluttishness; slatternlines. Drayton. - INTERMEAN
Something done in the meantime; interlude. B. Jonson. - FLUTTER
1. To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings. 2. To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak.