Nearby Words
| Main Entry: |
yak/yap
|
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
| Definition: | talk a lot |
| Synonyms: | babble, blather, chat, chatter, clack, confabulate, gab, gossip, jabber, jaw, prate, prattle, run on, tattle, yammer |
| Main Entry: | yak |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | talk |
| Synonyms: | babble, blather, chat, chatter, clack, confabulate, gab, gossip, jabber, jaw, prate, prattle, run on, tattle, yammer, yap |
| Main Entry: | maunder |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wander |
| Synonyms: | babble, blather, drift, drivel, mumble, mutter, ramble, stray |
| Notes: | maunder means to talk incoherently or to speak in a rambling manner or to wander aimlessly or confusedly; meander means to wind or turn in a course or to move in a leisurely way |
| Main Entry: | gibber |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | babble |
| Synonyms: | blab, blather, blubber, blurt, burble, cackle, chat, chatter, gabble, go on, gossip, gush, jabber, mumble, murmur, mutter, patter, prate, prattle, rant, rave, run off at the mouth, run on, spill the beans, squeal, tal, talk foolishly, talk incoherently |
| Main Entry: | hooey |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonsense |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, babble, balderdash, baloney, bananas, blather, bombast, bull*, bunk, bunkum, claptrap, drivel, fatuity, flightiness, folly, foolishness, fun, garbage, gibberish, giddiness, hogwash, hot air, idiocy, imprudence, inanity, irrationality, ja |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | jabberwocky |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | babble |
| Synonyms: | blather, blatherskite, blubbering, burble, chatter, clamor, double talk, drivel, gab, gabble, gibberish, gossip, gushing, idle talk, jabber, jabbering, jargon, murmur, muttering, nonsense, prate, prattle, ranting, tattling, twaddle |
| Main Entry: | jabberwocky |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gibberish |
| Synonyms: | abracadabra, babble, balderdash, blah-blah, blather, chatter, claptrap, double talk, drivel, gobbledygook, hocus-pocus, jabber, jargon, mumbo jumbo, palaver*, prattle, scat, twaddle, yammer |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | talebearing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gossip |
| Synonyms: | account, babble, back-fence talk, blather, blether, buzz*, calumny, chatter, chitchat, chronicle, clothesline, conversation, cry, defamation, dirty laundry, dirty linen, dirty wash, earful, gossipry, grapevine, hearsay, idle talk, injury, malicious talk, meddling, news, prate, prattle, report, rumor, scandal, scuttlebutt, slander, small talk, story, tale, talk, tattle, tittle-tattle, whispering campaign, wire, word* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tittle-tattle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | gossip |
| Synonyms: | babble, bad-mouth, bend one's ear, blab, blather, blether, chat, chatter, cut to pieces, cut up, dish, hint, imply, insinuate, intimate, jaw, noise, prate, prattle, rattle on, repeat, report, rumor, schmoose, spill the beans, spread*, suggest, talk, talk idly, tattle, tell secrets, tell tales out of school, tell tales, whisper, wiggle-waggle |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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