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Meanings of jabbering in English

Catalan
parloteig

Rapid and indistinct speech.

parloteig

Babbling.

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Examples for "jabber"
Examples for "jabber"
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And the answer is, when they jabber more in Vulcan, he added.
Reuters
2
There's been plenty of jabber about whether Djokovic deserves the No1 spot.
The Guardian
3
The words being spoken around her seemed to dissolve into a jabber.
The Long War
4
Julia is the linguist, and can jabber French and German like natives.
What Can She Do?
5
They were all foreigners, and they quite deafened me by their jabber.
Armadale
1
There followed a tedious debate, a muddy flow of gabble and balderdash.
In the Year of Jubilee
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Shawn began to gabble with amazing speed and in a mighty voice:
The Crock of Gold
3
Abolitionists sneered at all this gabble about the sacredness of the Constitution.
Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Spri...
4
There was a brave gabble of tongues enough when I came in.
Bog-Myrtle and Peat / Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from th...
5
You were reciting some gabble on the steps a little bit ago.
Tabitha at Ivy Hall
Usage of jabbering in English
1
The divisional CO spoke up: 'Let us be done with this jabbering.
The white war: life and death on the italian front 1915-1919
2
The saleswoman compliments her French accent, and they start jabbering in French.
The new yorker
3
Korak, returning from the hunt, heard the jabbering of the excited monkeys.
The Son of Tarzan
4
From the kneeling eunuch came a shriek and moan and incoherent jabbering.
A Williams Anthology / A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Wi...
5
I seem to loathe as much as I loved the jabbering idiot.
The White Chief: A Legend of Northern Mexico
6
They kept looking from the corpse to me and jabbering among themselves.
Pellucidar
7
Nicole heard them flapping their wings in the hallway and jabbering intermittently.
The Complete Rama Omnibus
8
She could look up at the jabbering husk with nothing but pity.
The Scar
9
The ambulance people had to shout at me to stop me jabbering.
Number9Dream
10
Hindhaugh went swiftly on deck, and stepped right among the jabbering Spaniards.
Stories by English Authors: The Sea
11
Each one then slowly retires to rest, but the jabbering hardly pauses.
Under Fire: The Story of a Squad
12
He had a peculiar way of jabbering over what he had scrawled.
The Lerouge Case
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He paused at the top and took in all the jabbering captives.
Perdido Street Station
14
Idle men and women smoking cigarettes lolled about, some silent, others jabbering.
The Light of the Western Stars
15
A knot of people had closed around him, all of them jabbering.
Boy’s Life
16
They flew in single file, one long chain of throbbing, jabbering heads.
The Haunted Mask
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