Gabble

The genii of syntax and prosody are his guardian angels, and the love of "gabble" is the be-all and the end-all of his political existence.

The tourists began to gabble excitedly as soon as the guide mentioned ghosts.

I couldn't understand a word of his nervous gabble during the interview.

The suspect began to gabble alibis the moment I mentioned the time of the murder.

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

Then he fell to gabbling strange and dreadful things which were not clearly understandable.

Americans are always drinking in crossroads saloons on Sunday afternoon; they bring their kids; they gabble and brawl over brews; everything’s fine.

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?

gabbling fowls

I not to Cinna’s Ears, nor Varus dare aſpire; / But gabble like a Gooſe; amidſt the Svvan-like Quire.