gabby
adjective
talkative; garrulous.
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1 American
[gab-ee]
/ ˈgæb i /
adjective
gabbier,
gabbiest
gabby
British
/ ˈɡæbɪ /
adjective
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“People apparently found the combination of my slight stature and gabby nature comical,” Mr. Graham wrote in his 2015 memoir, referring to a coping strategy learned in childhood.
From New York Times ● Aug. 14, 2021
I think of those worn-out L-wedges and know that beneath the gabby cool is a grinding longshoreman who put in a lot of overtime.
From Golf Digest ● Jun. 11, 2017
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
He said he was concerned potential employers might not be eager to hire someone so gabby about a former workplace.
From Slate ● Nov. 7, 2016
He was more like some gabby old codger who would sit next to you on a bus and try to show you bits of paper he kept folded in his wallet.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
She rents out rooms to tourists, and is soon offering Gabby a fresh egg.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Ms. Bowers portrays Gabby as slightly lost, with a subdued amiability and frayed edges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Hull and Gabby Lopez, who also finished seven under par, had to share second place - Hull's fifth runner-up finish in the majors.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
It seems likely that Seattle, with Skylar Diggins-Smith and Gabby Williams as free agents, could take a step back.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026
Gabby runs to her mom, and I wobble over to Apá for the father-daughter dance.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
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 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
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