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📚 noun • entry_id 14614

jabber

/ˈd͡ʒæbə(ɹ)/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
farfulla • galimatías
Rapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance; gibberish.
1735, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, in The Works of Jonathan Swift, edited by George Faulkner, Dublin, 1735, Volume 3, A Letter from Capt. Gulliver to his Cousin Sympson, pp.…
Two tongues from the depths, Alike only as a yellow cat and a green parrot are alike, Fling their staccato tantalizations Into a wildcat jabber Over a gossamer web of unanswerables…
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📚 verb • entry_id 14613

jabber

/ˈd͡ʒæbə(ɹ)/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
farfullar
To utter rapidly or indistinctly; to gabble.
He wept very little, but when he wept he howled aloud, and jabbered wild abuse, threats and recriminations through the wet torrent of his howling.
She had Lord James' collar in one big fist and she pounded the table with the other and talked a blue streak. Nobody could make out plain what she said, for she was mainly jabberin…