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jabbery

jabbery adjective: characterised by jabbering.

Adjective

jabbery (comparative more jabbery, superlative most jabbery)

  1. Characterised by jabbering.
    • The English band Crass sounded like a bag of rocks: scrabbly drum rolls, clanky guitars, no bass end, the words a jabbery Cockney caterwaul through endless stanzas of common meter.2008 January 13, Ben Ratliff, “Easy Slogans, Twinkly Funk and One Busy String”, in New York Times

Forms of jabbery

comparativemore jabbery
superlativemost jabbery

Origin of jabbery

From jabber + -y.

Questions about jabbery

What does jabbery mean?
Jabbery means characterised by jabbering.
What part of speech is jabbery?
Jabbery is an adjective.

Words near jabbery in the dictionary

  1. jabbersome
  2. Jabberwock
  3. Jabberwockian
  4. jabberwockies
  5. jabberwocky
  6. jabbery
  7. jabbier
  8. jabbiest
  9. jabbing
  10. jabbingly
  11. jabbings

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