gibble-gabble

[ gib-uhl-gab-uhl ]

/ ˈgɪb əlˌgæb əl /

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noun

senseless chatter.

verb (used without object), gib·ble-gab·bled, gib·ble-gab·bling.

to engage in gibble-gabble.

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Origin of gibble-gabble

First recorded in 1590–1600; gradational compound from gabble

gibble-gabbler, noun

“Doing more with less” is often management-gabble to justify arbitrary budget cuts.
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The excitement and gabble were worse than the Dean case, or Federation, and sickened me, for they were all on the wrong track.
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But no flight of arrows rattled among the boughs, and all we heard was the gabble of excited voices.
Mass' George|George Manville Fenn
The lovely gabble of the cranes and the wild swans comes back to me whenever I think of the place.
Thirty Years in Australia|Ada Cambridge

"You must be drunk yourself to come here waking me up in the middle of the night, to hear this idle gabble," said Louis angrily.
File No. 113|Emile Gaboriau
Two incidents alone relieved the dead level of idiocy and incomprehensible gabble.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25)|Robert Louis Stevenson