See gabble in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "laq̇boba",
"sense": "to utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity",
"word": "ლაყბობა"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "luɣluɣi",
"sense": "to utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity",
"word": "ლუღლუღი"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "buṭbuṭi",
"sense": "to utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity",
"word": "ბუტბუტი"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity",
"word": "hadar"
}
],
"word": "gabble"
}
{
"categories": [
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English reporting verbs",
"English terms suffixed with -le (verbal frequentative)",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verbs",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Requests for review of Hindi translations",
"Requests for review of Kyrgyz translations",
"Rhymes:English/æbəl",
"Rhymes:English/æbəl/2 syllables",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with Czech translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with Georgian translations",
"Terms with Hindi translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Kyrgyz translations",
"Terms with Maori translations"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "gibble-gabble"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gab",
"3": "le",
"id2": "verbal frequentative"
},
"expansion": "gab + -le",
"name": "suf"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "stq",
"2": "gabbelje",
"t": "to mock"
},
"expansion": "Saterland Frisian gabbelje (“to mock”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "gabbelen",
"t": "to chatter, babble"
},
"expansion": "Dutch gabbelen (“to chatter, babble”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds-de",
"2": "gabbeln",
"t": "to mock"
},
"expansion": "German Low German gabbeln (“to mock”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From gab + -le. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gabbelje (“to mock”), Dutch gabbelen (“to chatter, babble”), German Low German gabbeln (“to mock”).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "gabble (uncountable)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1914, G. K. Chesterton, The Wisdom of Father Brown:",
"text": "a lot of gabble from witnesses",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 26:",
"text": "[T]he driver was delayed there by a skimpy little woman with a thin piping voice practised in the art of defeating escape from it by a ceaseless stream of gabble.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Confused or unintelligible speech."
],
"tags": [
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈɡæbəl/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-gabble.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/78/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-gabble.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-gabble.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/78/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-gabble.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-gabble.wav.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-æbəl"
}
],
"word": "gabble"
}
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