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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Now, back to gabby old Bob from accounting.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2022
But that’s a very long wait in Charlie McDowell’s oppressive Netflix drama, a gabby hostage movie with a single, covetable location and three unappealing characters.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 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
Go with a gabby friend or two, to jump-start your share.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 14, 2019
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
Several other players have spoken out against the ire directed at transgender women, including Cloud, the Valkyries’ Gabby Williams and Storm’s Stefanie Dolson.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 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
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
Gabby Windey, a former “Bachelorette” and “Dancing With the Stars” runner-up, won Season 3 of “The Traitors” and will soon host the dating competition “Love Overboard.”
From Los Angeles Times ● 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 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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