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gabbling

noun, verb

gabbling is a noun meaning “Rapid, confused speech” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-A-B-B-L-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 46 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of gabbling is gabblings.

What does gabbling mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Rapid, confused speech.

    the gabblings of a madman

verb

  1. 1

    present participle and gerund of gabble (a form of gabble)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of gabbling

  • gabblings plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is gabbling?

Gabbling appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).