gabby
adjective
talkative; garrulous.
gabby
1 American
[gab-ee]
/ ˈgæb i /
adjective
gabbier,
gabbiest
gabby
British
/ ˈɡæbɪ /
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of gabby
Example Sentences
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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
Members of Congress: “little mannikins, shrewd, gabby, drest in black, hopping about, making motions, amendments.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 17, 2020
Go with a gabby friend or two, to jump-start your share.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 14, 2019
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
I’ll bet I could get a rise out of Finny with— Dr. Stanpole was fairly gabby too.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
Mark Chapman was paid around £335,000, Gabby Logan made £290,000, and Kelly Cates earned £215,000 - considerably lower than Lineker's £1.3m even when combined.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
But her confusion turns to doubt: How does Gabby know Robin was the father?
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
Aly and Maddie were in one room, Laurie and I were in another room, and Gabby had a room to herself.
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
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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