yabber
Americannoun
verb
noun
Etymology
Origin of yabber
First recorded in 1870–75; perhaps alteration, by association with jabber, of a word based on ya- “speak, talk,” in Gabi (an Australian Aboriginal language spoken in the Maryborough district, southern Queensland)
Example Sentences
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I'm actually perfectly fine for them to yabber on incessantly.
From Fox News
Imagine the aching loneliness, the black pool of terrifying existential angst, that might be encountered in a whole six minutes’ absence from all our yabber, yabber, yabber over 365 days.
From The Guardian
“He’ll be down with the books. My old septon used to say that books are dead men talking. Dead men should keep quiet, is what I say. No one wants to hear a dead man’s yabber.”
From Literature
To make this seem exciting, they'd yabber that "the net" was "closing", or read out exhaustive lists of how many the guns the police had.
From The Guardian
Who drummed you on our yabber?
From Time Magazine Archive
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