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
Example Sentences
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Now, back to gabby old Bob from accounting.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 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
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
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
She rents out rooms to tourists, and is soon offering Gabby a fresh egg.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Presenter Gabby Logan has spoken about grief and her final moments with her dad Terry Yorath.
From BBC ● May 19, 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
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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