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gabby

[gab-ee] / ˈgæb i /


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“People apparently found the combination of my slight stature and gabby nature comical,” Mr. Graham wrote in his 2015 memoir, referring to a coping strategy learned in childhood.

From New York Times Aug. 14, 2021

Members of Congress: “little mannikins, shrewd, gabby, drest in black, hopping about, making motions, amendments.”

From Washington Post Apr. 17, 2020

I think of those worn-out L-wedges and know that beneath the gabby cool is a grinding longshoreman who put in a lot of overtime.

From Golf Digest Jun. 11, 2017

After college, he tried and failed to persuade the C.I.A. to employ him; the real-life agency, unlike its fictional counterparts, prefers not to hire young men who are gabby and insubordinate.

From The New Yorker Apr. 3, 2017

In recent years they had fallen in with a gabby, childless couple, older than they were, called the MacNatts.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Such channels are already scarce, and they will get scarcer still as more and gabbier satellites for communication, navigation and weather watching take to space.

From Time Magazine Archive

When asked to identify the best trash talker on the offensive side of the ball, receiver DeVante Parker didn’t hesitate in identifying his quarterback as the gabbiest.

From Washington Times Aug. 3, 2023

Werner Herzog’s chatty, mostly fascinating contribution to this year’s Seattle International Film Festival was this talkathon featuring several of the world’s gabbiest prophets.

From Seattle Times Aug. 18, 2016

Geckos are the gabbiest, and some produce “a variety of chirps, clicks, and squeaks, some inaudible to humans,” Espinoza says.

From National Geographic Oct. 24, 2015

Last week the fans got a new radio & TV announcer, and the gabbiest one of all: old-time Movie Comic Joe E. Brown.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yes! heroic Swan, I love thee even when thou gabbiest like a goose; for thy geese helped to save the Capitol.

From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge




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