JABBER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jabber mean? 

• JABBER (noun)
  The noun JABBER has 1 sense:

1. rapid and indistinct speech

  Familiarity information: JABBER used as a noun is very rare.

• JABBER (verb)
  The verb JABBER has 1 sense:

1. talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner

  Familiarity information: JABBER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JABBER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rapid and indistinct speech

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

gabble; jabber; jabbering

Hypernyms ("jabber" is a kind of...):

gibber; gibberish (unintelligible talking)

Derivation:

jabber (talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner)

• JABBER (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they jabber    ... he / she / it jabbers   
Past simple: jabbered   
Past participle: jabbered   
-ing form: jabbering   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

jabber; mouth off; rabbit on; rant; rave; spout

Hypernyms (to "jabber" is one way to...):

mouth; speak; talk; utter; verbalise; verbalize (express in speech)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue jabber

Derivation:

jabber (rapid and indistinct speech)

jabberer (someone whose talk is trivial drivel)

jabbering (rapid and indistinct speech)

 Context examples 

"Stop jabbering, girls, and I'll tell you everything," said Jo, wondering if Miss Burney felt any grander over her Evelina than she did over her 'Rival Painters'.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

As he spoke, from the dark recesses of the woods we heard far away the jabbering cry of the ape-men.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He knew us by our countenances to be Englishmen, and jabbering to us in his own language, swore we should be tied back to back and thrown into the sea.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

They all jabbered and chattered together.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And is there less probability in my account of the Houyhnhnms or Yahoos, when it is manifest as to the latter, there are so many thousands even in this country, who only differ from their brother brutes in Houyhnhnmland, because they use a sort of jabber, and do not go naked?

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I call them apes, but they carried sticks and stones in their hands and jabbered talk to each other, and ended up by tyin' our hands with creepers, so they are ahead of any beast that I have seen in my wanderin's.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)