Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to jabber
Participle: jabbered
Gerund: jabbering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | jabber |
| you | jabber |
| he;she;it | jabbers |
| we | jabber |
| you | jabber |
| they | jabber |
Perfect
| I | have jabbered |
| you | have jabbered |
| he;she;it | has jabbered |
| we | have jabbered |
| you | have jabbered |
| they | have jabbered |
Past
| I | jabbered |
| you | jabbered |
| he;she;it | jabbered |
| we | jabbered |
| you | jabbered |
| they | jabbered |
Pluperfect
| I | had jabbered |
| you | had jabbered |
| he;she;it | had jabbered |
| we | had jabbered |
| you | had jabbered |
| they | had jabbered |
Future
| I | will jabber |
| you | will jabber |
| he;she;it | will jabber |
| we | will jabber |
| you | will jabber |
| they | will jabber |
Future Perfect
| I | will have jabbered |
| you | will have jabbered |
| he;she;it | will have jabbered |
| we | will have jabbered |
| you | will have jabbered |
| they | will have jabbered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | jabber |
| you | jabber |
| he;she;it | jabber |
| we | jabber |
| you | jabber |
| they | jabber |
Perfect
| I | have jabbered |
| you | have jabbered |
| he;she;it | have jabbered |
| we | have jabbered |
| you | have jabbered |
| they | have jabbered |
Imperfect
| I | jabbered |
| you | jabbered |
| he;she;it | jabbered |
| we | jabbered |
| you | jabbered |
| they | jabbered |
Pluperfect
| I | had jabbered |
| you | had jabbered |
| he;she;it | had jabbered |
| we | had jabbered |
| you | had jabbered |
| they | had jabbered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would jabber |
| you | would jabber |
| he;she;it | would jabber |
| we | would jabber |
| you | would jabber |
| they | would jabber |
Perfect
| I | would have jabbered |
| you | would have jabbered |
| he;she;it | would have jabbered |
| we | would have jabbered |
| you | would have jabbered |
| they | would have jabbered |
Imperative
| you | jabber |
| we | Let's jabber |
| you | jabber |
Verbs conjugated like 'jabber'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'jabber'
jibber,
yabber,
amber,
barber,
blabber,
camber,
clabber,
gibber,
jabble,
rabbet,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to communicate to someone else by means of speech
- articulate, babble, blab, chat, chatter, converse, discuss, quethe, say, speak, talk, verbalize, yammer
- to talk too much; to talk idly
- babble, bat the breeze, blab, blabber, blather, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chew the rag, chinwag, chit-chat, chunner, clack, claver, clepe, drivel, gabble, gibber, go on, maunder, natter, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, rabbit, rabbit on, ramble, shoot the breeze, shoot the bull, shoot the shit, smatter, tattle, twaddle, waffle, wibble, witter, yabber, yack, yap, yatter
- chatter
- prattle, babble, gibber, mumble, mutter, gurgle, coo
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English jaberen, javeren, chaveren (“to chatter, babble”), dissimilated forms of jablen, chavelen (“to jabber”), from Middle English chavel ("jaw"; > modern English jowl). Equivalent to jowl + -er (iterative suffix). See: English '
jowl'.
Sample Sentences
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1829, James Hogg, The Shepherd’s Calendar, New York: A.T. Goodrich, Volume I, Chapter 9, “Mary Burnet,” p. 184,
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Allanson made some sound in his throat, as if attempting to speak, but his tongue refused its office, and he only jabbered.
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“What are you jabbering about, shipmate?” said I. [1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter 19”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:]
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The noise of their battle with Numa had drawn an excited horde of savages from the nearby village, and a moment after the lion’s death the two men were surrounded by lithe, ebon warriors, gesticulating and jabbering—a thousand questions that drowned each ventured reply. [1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 125:]
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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. [1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter XII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:]
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He wept very little, but when he wept he howled aloud, and jabbered wild abuse, threats and recriminations through the wet torrent of his howling. [1939, H. G. Wells, The Holy Terror, Book One, Chapter 1, Section 2:]