Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to gabble
Participle: gabbled
Gerund: gabbling
Indicative
Present
| I | gabble |
| you | gabble |
| he;she;it | gabbles |
| we | gabble |
| you | gabble |
| they | gabble |
Perfect
| I | have gabbled |
| you | have gabbled |
| he;she;it | has gabbled |
| we | have gabbled |
| you | have gabbled |
| they | have gabbled |
Past
| I | gabbled |
| you | gabbled |
| he;she;it | gabbled |
| we | gabbled |
| you | gabbled |
| they | gabbled |
Pluperfect
| I | had gabbled |
| you | had gabbled |
| he;she;it | had gabbled |
| we | had gabbled |
| you | had gabbled |
| they | had gabbled |
Future
| I | will gabble |
| you | will gabble |
| he;she;it | will gabble |
| we | will gabble |
| you | will gabble |
| they | will gabble |
Future Perfect
| I | will have gabbled |
| you | will have gabbled |
| he;she;it | will have gabbled |
| we | will have gabbled |
| you | will have gabbled |
| they | will have gabbled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | gabble |
| you | gabble |
| he;she;it | gabble |
| we | gabble |
| you | gabble |
| they | gabble |
Perfect
| I | have gabbled |
| you | have gabbled |
| he;she;it | have gabbled |
| we | have gabbled |
| you | have gabbled |
| they | have gabbled |
Imperfect
| I | gabbled |
| you | gabbled |
| he;she;it | gabbled |
| we | gabbled |
| you | gabbled |
| they | gabbled |
Pluperfect
| I | had gabbled |
| you | had gabbled |
| he;she;it | had gabbled |
| we | had gabbled |
| you | had gabbled |
| they | had gabbled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would gabble |
| you | would gabble |
| he;she;it | would gabble |
| we | would gabble |
| you | would gabble |
| they | would gabble |
Perfect
| I | would have gabbled |
| you | would have gabbled |
| he;she;it | would have gabbled |
| we | would have gabbled |
| you | would have gabbled |
| they | would have gabbled |
Imperative
| you | gabble |
| we | Let's gabble |
| you | gabble |
Verbs conjugated like 'gabble'
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 'gabble'
babble,
dabble,
gamble,
garble,
gobble,
grabble,
habble,
jabble,
mabble,
pabble,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- 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, gibber, go on, jabber, 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
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From gab + -le. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gabbelje (“to mock”), Dutch gabbelen (“to chatter, babble”), German Low German gabbeln (“to mock”). See: Frisian, Saterlandic 'gabbelje', Dutch '
gabbelen'.
Sample Sentences
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I pitied thee, took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour one thing or other; when thou didst not, savage, know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like a thing most brutish [1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:]
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Then he fell to gabbling strange and dreadful things which were not clearly understandable. [1900, Mark Twain, chapter 4, in The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg:]
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Americans are always drinking in crossroads saloons on Sunday afternoon; they bring their kids; they gabble and brawl over brews; everything’s fine. [1957 September 5, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC:]
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Does she regard him simply as a workman come to do a job for her, someone whom she need never lay eyes on again; or is she gabbling to hide discomfiture? [2013, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 16, in The Childhood of Jesus, Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company, page 144:]
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gabbling fowls
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I not to Cinna’s Ears, nor Varus dare aſpire; / But gabble like a Gooſe; amidſt the Svvan-like Quire. [1697, Virgil, “The Ninth Pastoral. Or, Lycidas, and Moeris.”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 43:]