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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Origin of gabby
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Now, back to gabby old Bob from accounting.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2022
O’Neill, the verbose old devil, gets too gabby in the last two acts, over-explaining through the dialogue, with the self-righteous Sara his particular mouthpiece.
From New York Times ● Oct. 30, 2020
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
Go with a gabby friend or two, to jump-start your share.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 14, 2019
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
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
“His audience has a particular interest in finance and investment,” says Gabby Gaudet, a Keeneland spokeswoman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 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
On holing his final putt, Woodland, 41, spread his arms wide and looked to the skies, before tears flowed as he embraced his wife Gabby.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2026
“She’s in his movies, too. He rides a horse named Trigger, a beautiful golden palomino. This funny old guy, Gabby Hayes, is his sidekick. Sometimes he sings cowboy songs. Surely you’ve seen his movies....”
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
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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