Jabber
verb
To talk quickly and without making much sense.
She started to jabber away about her trip to New York
Often appears as...
- jabber away
- jabbering on
noun
Talk that is quick and hard to understand.
The toddler was babbling an incomprehensible jabber.
Often appears as...
- incomprehensible jabber
- jabber of voices
verb
To talk quickly and without making much sense.
She started to jabber away about her trip to New York
Often appears as...
- jabber away
- jabbering on
noun
Talk that is quick and hard to understand.
The toddler was babbling an incomprehensible jabber.
Often appears as...
- incomprehensible jabber
- jabber of voices
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Speedy Speech
Jabbering usually implies speaking very fast, often too fast for others to follow.
He began to jabber as soon as he got nervous.
Pro Tip 2/3Informal Context
Used mostly in casual conversations, 'jabber' is not typical for formal situations.
At the party, they would jabber excitedly with their friends.
Pro Tip 3/3Lack of Clarity
'Jabber' also suggests that what is being said is hard to understand because of how quickly it's spoken.
Amidst his jabber, I could hardly catch a word.
Compare with
babbleblabberblatherchattergabblegibberishnatterprattle
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Video examples
40 Years Later, A Family...
see my kids again the first start was I like music drama calm is a beautiful thing and you just get this feeling like oh yeah I got to get a picture of this I know in here that and of course everybody's excited jabbering it doesn't
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Take "the Other" to...
They've made me a proud "I-don't-know-it-all." Now, when the mystic part of me jabbers on and on like this, the warrior rolls her eyes. She's concerned about what's happening in this world right now.
Video examples
40 Years Later, A Family...
see my kids again the first start was I like music drama calm is a beautiful thing and you just get this feeling like oh yeah I got to get a picture of this I know in here that and of course everybody's excited jabbering it doesn't
Video examples
Take "the Other" to...
They've made me a proud "I-don't-know-it-all." Now, when the mystic part of me jabbers on and on like this, the warrior rolls her eyes. She's concerned about what's happening in this world right now.
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Quote examples
Beverly Lewis
American Novelist
One of my earliest memories was of seeing horse-drawn buggies with little Amish children peering out at me from the back, their legs dangling as they jabbered in Pennsylvania Dutch, sometimes pointing and giggling at my family following slowly behind them in our car.
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Nicholas Kristof
American Journalist
Utah may well be the most cosmopolitan state in America. Vast numbers of young Mormons - increasingly women as well as men - spend a couple of years abroad as missionaries and return jabbering in Thai or Portuguese and bearing a wealth of international experience.
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Richard Elman
American Novelist
I jabbered too much in class about all the Russian writers whom I admired for being, among other things, uncouth and somewhat humorously melodramatic, such as Gogol and Dostoyevsky, just as it was in my own household when I was growing up.
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Anna Maxwell Martin
English Actress
As a young girl, I was too intent on getting to London and drama school and out of east Yorkshire to think about winning Oscars. I did win a Bafta once, and was so unprepared for it I jabbered on for a minute - a minute too long.
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Haley Reinhart
American Musician
I definitely I prefer to sing in the car. I don't sing in the shower, maybe its because that's the one time I don't need to talk to anyone so I should just shut up, otherwise I'm just, you know, jibber jabber.
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Mr. T
American Actor
I sent out a tweet, 'Dancing with the Stars' should stop the jibber jabber. They shouldn't make the departure of a dancer so tear jerky because nobody's going to war.
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Eduardo Galeano
Uruguayan Journalist
We Latins are known for jabbering on.
Quote examples
Beverly Lewis
American Novelist
One of my earliest memories was of seeing horse-drawn buggies with little Amish children peering out at me from the back, their legs dangling as they jabbered in Pennsylvania Dutch, sometimes pointing and giggling at my family following slowly behind them in our car.
Quote examples
Nicholas Kristof
American Journalist
Utah may well be the most cosmopolitan state in America. Vast numbers of young Mormons - increasingly women as well as men - spend a couple of years abroad as missionaries and return jabbering in Thai or Portuguese and bearing a wealth of international experience.
Quote examples
Richard Elman
American Novelist
I jabbered too much in class about all the Russian writers whom I admired for being, among other things, uncouth and somewhat humorously melodramatic, such as Gogol and Dostoyevsky, just as it was in my own household when I was growing up.
Quote examples
Anna Maxwell Martin
English Actress
As a young girl, I was too intent on getting to London and drama school and out of east Yorkshire to think about winning Oscars. I did win a Bafta once, and was so unprepared for it I jabbered on for a minute - a minute too long.
Quote examples
Haley Reinhart
American Musician
I definitely I prefer to sing in the car. I don't sing in the shower, maybe its because that's the one time I don't need to talk to anyone so I should just shut up, otherwise I'm just, you know, jibber jabber.
Quote examples
Mr. T
American Actor
I sent out a tweet, 'Dancing with the Stars' should stop the jibber jabber. They shouldn't make the departure of a dancer so tear jerky because nobody's going to war.
Quote examples
Eduardo Galeano
Uruguayan Journalist
We Latins are known for jabbering on.
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