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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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 • Jun. 6, 2018
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 • Jul. 16, 2010
Nobody could yabber with her but Bob; and he kept close to her all the time.
From Such Is Life by Furphy, Joseph
It is somewhat of a trouble that "Minnie" had almost forgotten her native tongue, and that her parents have to yabber to her in English.
From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
He handed the "paper yabber" to Sax, and disappeared.
From In the Musgrave Ranges by Sayce, Conrad H. (Conrad Harvey)
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