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Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To talk idly or incessantly, as about trivial matters.
- noun Idle talk; chatter.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hook or crook; specifically, the hook on an eccentricrod which engages the wrist on the rock-shaft lever of a valve-motion.
- To jest; lie in jest; speak with exaggeration; lie.
- To talk idly; talk much; chatter; prate.
- To speak or tell falsely.
- To project like a tusk.
- noun The mouth.
- noun A jest; joke; mock; a piece of pleasantry.
- noun Idle talk; chatter; loquacity.
- noun Same as
gaub .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Steam Engine) The hook on the end of an eccentric rod opposite the strap. See.
Illust. ofeccentric . - noun colloq. The mouth; hence, idle prate; chatter; unmeaning talk; loquaciousness.
- noun [Colloq.] facility of expression.
- intransitive verb obsolete To deceive; to lie.
- intransitive verb To talk idly; to prate; to chatter.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
idle chatter - noun
mouth asgob - verb intransitive, obsolete To
jest ; to tell lies in jest;exaggerate ;lie . - verb intransitive To
talk orchatter a lot, usually ontrivial subjects. - verb transitive, obsolete To speak or tell falsely.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb talk profusely
- noun light informal conversation for social occasions
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The notion that our leaders might have the brains and skill to maturely resolve conflicts with the gift of gab is astounding and long overdue.
Poll: Image of US will 'change for the better' with Obama 2008
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The natives in the vicinity of Perth generally use the word gab-by, or kuyp-e, for water, but those inhabiting a district only twelve or fourteen miles distant from Perth adopt the word kow-win; the word used by the natives in the vicinity of Adelaide in South Australia for water is kauw-ee.
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 George Grey 1855
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For your gift of the gab is a caution -- are splendid;
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, June 4, 1892 Various
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Sometimes our phone conversations go on forever, and we just kind of gab about our lives, and what is holding us back.
Claudia Ricci: Coincidences and Clairvoyance: The Mysteries of This Book Continue Unexplained Claudia Ricci 2010
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Sometimes our phone conversations go on forever, and we just kind of gab about our lives, and what is holding us back.
Claudia Ricci: Coincidences and Clairvoyance: The Mysteries of This Book Continue Unexplained Claudia Ricci 2010
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Sometimes our phone conversations go on forever, and we just kind of gab about our lives, and what is holding us back.
Claudia Ricci: Coincidences and Clairvoyance: The Mysteries of This Book Continue Unexplained Claudia Ricci 2010
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Sometimes our phone conversations go on forever, and we just kind of gab about our lives, and what is holding us back.
Claudia Ricci: Coincidences and Clairvoyance: The Mysteries of This Book Continue Unexplained Claudia Ricci 2010
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Berserk, nor "gab" like the Paladins of Charlemagne, he is ready on provocation to boast of what he has done.
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"Shut up that kind of gab," demanded Jorth, stridently.
To the Last Man Zane Grey 1905
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"Aw, shut up that kind of gab, will y'u?" broke in Colter, harshly.
To the Last Man Zane Grey 1905
Related Words
synonyms (126)
Words with the same meaning
- accents
- babble
- babblement
- balderdash
- balls
- bavardage
- bazoo
- bibble-babble
- blab
- blabber
- blah-blah
- blarney
- blather
- blether
- blethers
- bull
- bullshit
- bunk
- bunkum
- cackle
- caquet
- caqueterie
- chaps
- chat
- chatter
- chitter-chatter
- chops
- clack
- clatter
- comment
- conversation
- converse
- crap
- deceive
- declaim
- discourse
- dither
- drivel
- elocution
- embouchure
- eyewash
- flummery
- gabble
- garbage
- gas
- gibber
- gibble-gabble
- go on
- gob
- gobbledygook
- gossip
- guff
- gush
- haver
- hogwash
- hot air
- idle talk
- jabber
- jaw
- jaws
- jowls
- kisser
- language
- lie
- lips
- loquaciousness
- mandibles
- maw
- maxilla
- mere talk
- moonshine
- mouth
- mug
- mumbo-jumbo
- mush
- muzzle
- natter
- nonsense
- nonsense talk
- oral cavity
- oral communication
- palaver
- parole
- patter
- piffle
- poppycock
- pour forth
- prate
- prating
- prattle
- premaxilla
- prittle-prattle
- ramble on
- rapping
- rattle
- rattle on
- reel off
- rot
- rubbish
- run on
- shit
- speak
- speaking
- speech
- spout
- spout off
- stuff and nonsense
- tale
- talk
- talk away
- talk nonsense
- talk on
- talkative
- talkee-talkee
- talking
- tittle-tattle
- trap
- twaddle
- twattle
- waffle
- wag the tongue
- words
- yak
- yakkety-yak
- yakking
- yap
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