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Jabber

verb
(past & past part. jabbered; pres. part. jabbering)
1.
Talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner.  Synonyms: mouth off, rabbit on, rant, rave, spout.



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"Jabber" Quotes from Famous Books



... Roscoe's uncle, failed to appreciate pwes, which were now held within stated bounds; he preferred out-of-door entertainments, as the heat, the smoke, the smell of raw plantain skins, the band, and the jabber were too ...
— The Road to Mandalay - A Tale of Burma • B. M. Croker
 
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... read a love story, you know, and this man has the same idea! He talked to me, the stiffest conversation lessons you ever heard. It was like the dialogues in Ruskin. I wonder what he would think if he should hear Karl and me sometimes. We jabber it all the time, he and Mamma and I. Dad won't let us when he's around, so we talk English then, and that instructs Karl. He's good except for his pronunciation. You should hear him do the Harvard yell! He rolls the 'r's' so far ...
— The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted • Katharine Ellis Barrett
 
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... the sky is a thousand times bluer, and what a cheery clatter of shrill quick French voices comes up from the court-yard under the windows! Bells are jangling; a family, mayhap, is going to Paris, en poste, and wondrous is the jabber of the courier, the postilion, the inn-waiters, and the lookers-on. The landlord calls out for "Quatre biftecks aux pommes pour le trente-trois,"—(O my countrymen, I love your tastes and your ways!)—the chambermaid is laughing and says, ...
— The Paris Sketch Book Of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh • William Makepeace Thackeray
 
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... an ear for their own native woodnotes as any signor or signora for an Italian air; that the boars of Westphalia gruntle as expressively through the nose as the inhabitants in High German; and that the frogs in the dykes of Holland croak as intelligibly as the natives jabber their Low Dutch. However this may be, we may consider those whose tongues hardly seem to be under the influence of reason, and do not keep up the proper conversation of human creatures, as imitating the language of ...
— Talks on Talking • Grenville Kleiser
 
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Words linked to "Jabber" :   verbalize, verbalise, mouth, gibberish, talk, speak, utter, rant, gibber



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