Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to brabble
Participle: brabbled
Gerund: brabbling
Indicative
Present
| I | brabble |
| you | brabble |
| he;she;it | brabbles |
| we | brabble |
| you | brabble |
| they | brabble |
Perfect
| I | have brabbled |
| you | have brabbled |
| he;she;it | has brabbled |
| we | have brabbled |
| you | have brabbled |
| they | have brabbled |
Past
| I | brabbled |
| you | brabbled |
| he;she;it | brabbled |
| we | brabbled |
| you | brabbled |
| they | brabbled |
Pluperfect
| I | had brabbled |
| you | had brabbled |
| he;she;it | had brabbled |
| we | had brabbled |
| you | had brabbled |
| they | had brabbled |
Future
| I | will brabble |
| you | will brabble |
| he;she;it | will brabble |
| we | will brabble |
| you | will brabble |
| they | will brabble |
Future Perfect
| I | will have brabbled |
| you | will have brabbled |
| he;she;it | will have brabbled |
| we | will have brabbled |
| you | will have brabbled |
| they | will have brabbled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | brabble |
| you | brabble |
| he;she;it | brabble |
| we | brabble |
| you | brabble |
| they | brabble |
Perfect
| I | have brabbled |
| you | have brabbled |
| he;she;it | have brabbled |
| we | have brabbled |
| you | have brabbled |
| they | have brabbled |
Imperfect
| I | brabbled |
| you | brabbled |
| he;she;it | brabbled |
| we | brabbled |
| you | brabbled |
| they | brabbled |
Pluperfect
| I | had brabbled |
| you | had brabbled |
| he;she;it | had brabbled |
| we | had brabbled |
| you | had brabbled |
| they | had brabbled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would brabble |
| you | would brabble |
| he;she;it | would brabble |
| we | would brabble |
| you | would brabble |
| they | would brabble |
Perfect
| I | would have brabbled |
| you | would have brabbled |
| he;she;it | would have brabbled |
| we | would have brabbled |
| you | would have brabbled |
| they | would have brabbled |
Imperative
| you | brabble |
| we | Let's brabble |
| you | brabble |
Verbs conjugated like 'brabble'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'brabble'
babble,
crabble,
drabble,
grabble,
rabble,
bedabble,
bedrabble,
bibble,
bobble,
braggle,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle Dutch brabbelen (“to quarrel, jabber”). Akin to babble. Compare modern Dutch brabbelen, German brabbeln (“to talk confusedly”). See: Dutch '
brabbelen', German, old spelling '
brabbeln'.
Verbs referencing "brabble"
Dutch
brabbelen.
Sample Sentences
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Then next is the Clinke, a gaol or prison for the trespassers in those parts; namely, in old time, for such as should brabble, frey, or break the peace on the said bank, or in the brothel houses, they were by the inhabitants thereabout apprehended and committed to this gaol, where they were straitly imprisoned. [1598, John Stow, Survey of London, London: J.M. Dent, published 1912, page 362:]
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1640, George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum; or, Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, etc., in The Remains of that Sweet Singer of the Temple George Herbert, London: Pickering, 1841, p. 141,
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Brabbling curs never want sore ears.
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1883, Edward Maunde Thompson, Preface to Diary of Richard Cocks, cape-merchant in the English factory in Japan, 1615-1622, London: Hakluyt Society, p. xxxvi,
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And it was not only with the English that the Dutch sailors quarrelled. They were drunken and riotous and “brabbled” in the streets, till at last the long-suffering Japanese lost patience and seizing two of them summarily cut off their heads.
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"There, let's have no brabbling!" My lord struck in good-humouredly. [1925, Stanley John Weyman, “XII In Society”, in Queen's Folly:]
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Farther on, when they came to a miniature glen between the semblance of two hills, down which, in mockery of a torrent, brabbled a slim brown stream, MacLean stood still […] [1902, Mary Johnston, chapter 9, in Audrey, New York: Grosset and Dunlap, page 121:]
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Down in the middle, among mossy boulders, the beck brabbled through golden sheets of Draba […] [1921, Reginald Farrer, chapter 10, in The Rainbow Bridge, London: E. Arnold & Co, page 181:]