English

Verb

jabber ‎(third-person singular simple present jabbers, present participle jabbering, simple past and past participle jabbered)

1. (intransitive) To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
2. (transitive) To utter rapidly or indistinctly; to gabble.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 12, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     She had Lord James' collar in one big fist and she pounded the table with the other and talked a blue streak. Nobody could make out plain what she said, for she was mainly jabbering Swede lingo, but there was English enough, of a kind, to give us some idee.

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Noun

jabber ‎(uncountable)

1. Rapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance; gibberish.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Jonathan Swift to this entry?)

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