Word.ws English Dictionary

gabbles

gabbles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of gabble.

Meaning of gabble

Verb

gabble (third-person singular simple present gabbles, present participle gabbling, simple past and past participle gabbled)

  1. (ambitransitive) To talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning.
    • 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 brutish1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...
  2. To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity.
    • gabbling fowls

See all 3 meanings of gabble

Questions about gabbles

What is gabbles the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Gabbles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of gabble.

Words near gabbles in the dictionary

  1. gabblements
  2. gabbler
  3. gabbleratchet
  4. gabbleratchets
  5. gabblers
  6. gabbles
  7. gabbling
  8. gabblings
  9. gabbro
  10. gabbrodiabase
  11. gabbrodiorite

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gabbles (page history and authors); gabble (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “gabbles.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/gabbles. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.