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
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
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
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
Ola's celebrity partners included wildlife presenter Steve Backshall and Welsh sprinter Iwan Thomas, while James danced with former international gymnast and broadcaster Gabby Logan, as well as The One Show presenter Alex Jones.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 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
She rents out rooms to tourists, and is soon offering Gabby a fresh egg.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
It was true that American gymnastics had evolved in recent years, with older girls like 2012 Fierce Fivers Aly Raisman and Gabby Douglas now back in contention to make the 2016 Olympics team.
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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