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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
gabble .
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Examples
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He gabbled, prattling about platitudes, desperate to get out of there.
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He gabbled, prattling about platitudes, desperate to get out of there.
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As they caught sight of Ah Cho they gabbled among themselves in low voices.
THE CHINAGO 2010
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Tom Byam Shaw's Ariel may swing on a trapeze from time to time but his speech – at first strangely elongated, then gabbled – is earthbound and he trips around the stage as if he were an obliging ballet student rather than a sharp-edged sprite.
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A district nurse came, gabbled into her mobile phone inches away from Dan's ear, a doctor, another nurse.
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They gabbled with Feodor as Georgi drew up two extra chairs, set two places, then withdrew after an elaborate set of good-byes.
Venom Joan Brady 2010
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I knew he was trying to distract Will, but the talkative boy took no notice and gabbled on: There are but seven of you in all, and plays I have seen often have a dozen or more parts.
The Secret of the Sealed Room Bailey MacDonald 2010
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I gabbled it in a whisper to Terry and Allison; the stout cleric goggled and Collins's hand twitched again at his lapel.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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Its very rapidity leads to some gabbled speaking, and the hurtling style which Boyd adopted for Shakespeare's histories is sometimes ill-suited to a play full of rhetorical excess.
Antony and Cleopatra 2010
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The man gabbled and gestured and spun like a madman.
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