gabby
adjective
talkative; garrulous.
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gabby
1 American
[gab-ee]
/ ˈgæb i /
adjective
gabbier,
gabbiest
gabby
British
/ ˈɡæbɪ /
adjective
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She leaned more on bodily frailty and the gabby momentum of her singular and hapless characters’ thoughts than on active violence.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 25, 2022
Usually he’s very gabby about goings on in the world of golf, but the isolation has given him less to share and inquire about.
From Golf Digest ● Apr. 8, 2020
In one, “Silent Prayer,” a mute, paralyzed Vietnam veteran is the central character, surrounded by a gabby family and watched over by a mute God.
From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2019
After college, he tried and failed to persuade the C.I.A. to employ him; the real-life agency, unlike its fictional counterparts, prefers not to hire young men who are gabby and insubordinate.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 3, 2017
In recent years they had fallen in with a gabby, childless couple, older than they were, called the MacNatts.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
Golden State Valkyries forward Gabby Williams said she would welcome a transgender athlete "on my team or against my team, any time".
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Gabby Foster, a Black woman who has traveled solo to seven countries, makes connections with locals before she even lands.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
Nell’s plan to shuttle Gabby off to another local hostess is foiled, and all three women find themselves cohabitating uneasily, even as Gabby and Orla strike up a friendly intimacy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Wearing T-shirts proclaiming "Victim exploitation does not equal victim advocacy", the parents of Gabby Petito have their own booth to promote their foundation, which supports missing persons cases and domestic violence prevention.
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026
“I thought it was just Kelly and Kira, but now I hear it’s Michelle and Gabby, too.”
From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King
Such channels are already scarce, and they will get scarcer still as more and gabbier satellites for communication, navigation and weather watching take to space.
From Time Magazine Archive
When asked to identify the best trash talker on the offensive side of the ball, receiver DeVante Parker didn’t hesitate in identifying his quarterback as the gabbiest.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 3, 2023
Werner Herzog’s chatty, mostly fascinating contribution to this year’s Seattle International Film Festival was this talkathon featuring several of the world’s gabbiest prophets.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2016
Geckos are the gabbiest, and some produce “a variety of chirps, clicks, and squeaks, some inaudible to humans,” Espinoza says.
From National Geographic ● Oct. 24, 2015
Last week the fans got a new radio & TV announcer, and the gabbiest one of all: old-time Movie Comic Joe E. Brown.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yes! heroic Swan, I love thee even when thou gabbiest like a goose; for thy geese helped to save the Capitol.
From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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