Jabber
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈdʒæbə(ɹ)/
- Rhymes: -æbə(ɹ)
Origin
Imitative.
Full definition of jabber
Verb
- (intransitive) To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
- (transitive) To utter rapidly or indistinctly; to gabble.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, Mr. Pratt's Patients Chapter 12, She had Lord James' collar in one big fist and she pounded the table with the other and talked a blue streak. Nobody could make out plain what she said, for she was mainly jabbering Swede lingo, but there was English enough, of a kind, to give us some idee.