verb, noun
verb ~ (on / away) (informal) to talk quickly so that people cannot hear you clearly or understand you:
[V] They were gabbling on about the past. * She was nervous and started to gabble. * [VN] He was gabbling nonsense. [also Vspeech]
noun [sing.] fast speech that is difficult to understand, especially when a lot of people are talking at the same time
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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