Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Tending to talk excessively; garrulous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Talkative; chattering; loquacious.
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- adjective Inclined to talk too much, especially about
trivia .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective full of trivial conversation
Etymologies
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Examples
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Often, it makes subjects "gabby" without revealing any important information.
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Often, it makes subjects "gabby" without revealing any important information.
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Let all the gabby knot-heads go to Facebook and Twitter.
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For instance, my high-school self — skinny, scabby, giggly, gabby, frantic to be noticed, tormented enough to be a tormentor, relentlessly pushing his cartoons and posters and noisy jokes and pseudo-sophisticated poems upon the helpless-high school — strikes me now as considerably obnoxious, though I owe him a lot: without his frantic ambition and insecurity I would not now be sitting on (as my present home was named by others) Haven Hill.
john updike | march 18, 1932 – january 27, 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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If they take one stance and impose injunctions – say, against gabby blondes cashing in on their nights of passion with a soap star – then the tabloid press fears a big earner may be destroyed.
As Twitter and WikiLeaks make a mockery of the high court, is this the end of privacy as we know it? 2011
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Donovan thought he was a gabby conspiratorial type, not the kind of man he wanted organizing these highly sensitive stations.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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For instance, my high-school self — skinny, scabby, giggly, gabby, frantic to be noticed, tormented enough to be a tormentor, relentlessly pushing his cartoons and posters and noisy jokes and pseudo-sophisticated poems upon the helpless-high school — strikes me now as considerably obnoxious, though I owe him a lot: without his frantic ambition and insecurity I would not now be sitting on (as my present home was named by others) Haven Hill.
January « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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How does one approach women in a culture that sees being gabby as being presumptuous?
What's Your Problem? 2009
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So Derek Jeter has apparently run afoul of another one of his gabby Yankee bosses, Hank Steinbrenner—not for an incendiary comment or an off-field indiscretion never that!
Extreme Makeover: The Derek Jeter Edition Jason Gay 2011
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Donovan thought he was a gabby conspiratorial type, not the kind of man he wanted organizing these highly sensitive stations.
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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