gabbler
English
Etymology
Noun
gabbler (plural gabblers)
- One who gabbles, or prates loquaciously on a trifling subject.
- 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 70:
- To Bradly, Podson was a minor pub gabbler out of a hundred such. He had boozed away an evening with Podson because he was an attendant parasite on Doctor Ramsey.
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- Noah Webster (1828) “gabbler”, in An American Dictionary of the English Language: […], volume I (A–I), New York, N.Y.: […] S. Converse; printed by Hezekiah Howe […], →OCLC.
- “gabbler”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “gabbler”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.