gabble

And Lucky’s monologue—veering inanely through realms including religion, academics and sports—is delivered by Mr. Thornton not, as it usually is, as a galloping pile of gabble, but with a musing seriousness.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2025

Hugo House is steamy by comparison, a hotbed of nerves and gabble.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2024

But the wobbly plot doesn’t really go anywhere; it’s more a series of disconnected scenes, featuring characters who aren’t really much more realistically textured than the figures in video games, although they certainly gabble more.

From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2016

The book consists entirely of the gabble and complaints of those buried in a village cemetery.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2015

From the table at Winston’s left, a little behind his back, someone was talking rapidly and continuously, a harsh gabble almost like the quacking of a duck, which pierced the general uproar of the room.

From "1984" by George Orwell

Mr. Bernthal, an Emmy winner for “The Bear,” imbues Sonny with a pinballing energy as he gabbles orders at the hostages and begins flailing negotiations with the cops massing outside.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

He plays tenor saxophone in cries and gabbles and interval jumps and long tones; his music usually describes motion and spirit rather than corresponding to preset tonal centers, rhythms, and melodies.

From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2014

King Kong has so much to say, often in interesting ways, that it gabbles and fluffs its lines.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 16, 2013

He approves of wordlessness – the less you talk, the longer you live, one fisherman tells him – but gabbles away like mad in his diary.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 1, 2013

No banker ever gabbles; he acts, thinks, reflects, listens, weighs.

From Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honoré de Balzac

Advance word on “Hereditary” told, or gabbled, of something more arresting than a regular fright night.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 8, 2018

Another controversial early work, Eight Songs for a Mad King, combined monologues spoken, shrieked and gabbled by the mad George III with fragments of Handel's Messiah.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2016

True, the narration that bookends the show includes gabbled allusions to Chekhov’s life: apparently there are some incidental connections between him and a Russian baron in Lugano, Switzerland, whence hails Mr. Finzi Pasca.

From New York Times ● Nov. 16, 2012

Its very rapidity leads to some gabbled speaking, and the hurtling style which Boyd adopted for Shakespeare's histories is sometimes ill-suited to a play full of rhetorical excess.

From The Guardian ● May 10, 2010

“I’m delighted that the egg never hatched,” she gabbled.

From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White

Others were scattered around, calling out for the child in their irritating gabbling.

From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2021

We shake hands and seconds later she’s off, gabbling away at 100mph about everything that’s happened to her in the past few days.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 21, 2018

This humanoid bot gave a speech to the UN, became a “citizen” of Saudi Arabia, and triggered headlines like “Sophia wants a baby” after gabbling some vague, pre-programmed remarks about the importance of families.

From The Verge ● Dec. 20, 2017

The key may lie in "gabbling," the Irish word for what goes inside each of our minds.

From Golf Digest ● Feb. 12, 2013

Already an excited voice was gabbling from the telescreen, but even as it started it was almost drowned by a roar of cheering from outside.

From "1984" by George Orwell