gabble

verb

1. (ambitransitive)To talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning.

   “I pitied thee, took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour one thing or other; when thou didst not, savage, know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like a thing most brutish”

   “Then he fell to gabbling strange and dreadful things which were not clearly understandable.”

   “Americans are always drinking in crossroads saloons on Sunday afternoon; they bring their kids; they gabble and brawl over brews; everything’s fine.”

   “Does she regard him simply as a workman come to do a job for her, someone whom she need never lay eyes on again; or is she gabbling to hide discomfiture?”

2. To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity.

   “gabbling fowls”

   “I not to Cinna’s Ears, nor Varus dare aſpire; / But gabble like a Gooſe; amidſt the Svvan-like Quire.”

noun

1. (uncountable)Confused or unintelligible speech.

   “a lot of gabble from witnesses”

   “[T]he driver was delayed there by a skimpy little woman with a thin piping voice practised in the art of defeating escape from it by a ceaseless stream of gabble.”