jabber
Rapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utteranceRapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance; gibberish.
» Don't give me that jibber jabber.
rul · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
4 senses(uncountable)Rapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance; gibberish.
rapid and indistinct speech
One who or that which jabs.
(informal)One who administers a hypodermic injection.
A kind of hand-operated corn planter.
Examples
4 sentencesDon't give me that jibber jabber.
He spent the entire meeting jabbering about himself.
Stop your jabbering.
He spends all his time chatting online on Jabber.
ruОн тратит всё своё время на болтовню по джабберу. — Biga
Translations
2 languagesOrigin
From Middle English jaberen, javeren, chaveren (“to chatter, babble”), dissimilated formsFrom Middle English jaberen, javeren, chaveren (“to chatter, babble”), dissimilated forms of jablen, chavelen (“to jabber”), from Middle English chavel ("jaw"; > modern English jowl). Equivalent to jowl + -er (iterative suffix).
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Forms
plural: jabbers| Singular | jabber |
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uncountable
Synonyms
2 synonymsWord family
4 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.