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Meanings of gab in English

Portuguese
fofoca
Catalan
safareig

Light informal conversation for social occasions.

      fofoca

      Talk profusely.

            Usage of gab in English
            1
            Well have a really great old gab some one of these days.
            Immortality Inc.
            2
            We knew well enough that he had the gift of the gab.
            Caleb Williams; Or, Things as They Are
            3
            I didn't mention it to the society because these fellows gab so.
            Tales from Many Sources, Vol. V
            4
            He was powerful vain about that gab of his'n, Doctor Kirby was.
            Danny's Own Story
            5
            It was at that moment I knew I had the gift of gab.
            Reuters
            6
            You were all having such a love feast gab-fest when I blew in.
            The Rules of the Game
            7
            He could gab with MIT Media Lab leader Joi Ito about artificial intelligence.
            Wired
            8
            He thought them to be the gab and idle speech of a boy.
            French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France
            9
            Amazing ignorance was unconcealed and the gift of gab was unrestrained.
            A Backward Glance at Eighty: Recollections & Comment
            10
            Real character, kind of helpless but with the gift of gab.
            Terminal Compromise
            11
            You look as if you had a gift of the gab.
            Walter Sherwood's Probation
            12
            You ought to hear his gab-it'sthe newest thing in soul-saving.
            Joyce of the North Woods
            13
            You had me blushing, but I'm really not one to gab.
            A Bloody Storm
            14
            He's a fine negotiator, and has the gift of the gab.
            The South African
            15
            He's got the gift of the gab and he has class.
            The Flanders Panel
            16
            I've heard sich gab before, and it doesn't jar me in the least.
            Rod of the Lone Patrol
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            Portuguese
            fofoca
            Gab through the time
            Gab across language varieties
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