Word Meanings - JABBER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense; to chatter. Swift. (more info) Etym:

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of JABBER)

• Chatter
• Rattle
• jabber
• cackle
• prattle
• twaddle

Related words: (words related to JABBER)

• RATTLESNAKE
  Any one of several species of venomous American snakes belonging to the genera Crotalus and Caudisona, or Sistrurus. They have a series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make a sharp ratting sound when shaken. The common
• RATTLETRAP
  Any machine or vehicle that does not run smoothly. A. Trollope.
• CACKLE
  gackeln, gackern; all of imitative origin. Cf. Gagle, Cake to 1. To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does. When every goose is cackling. Shak. 2. To laugh with a broken noise, like the cackling of a hen or a goose; to giggle.
• RATTLE
  1. To cause to make a ratting or clattering sound; as, to rattle a chain. 2. To assail, annoy, or stun with a ratting noise. Sound but another , and another shall As loud as thine rattle the welkin's ear. Shak. 3. Hence, to disconcert; to confuse;
• PRATTLE
  To talk much and idly; to prate; hence, to talk lightly and artlessly, like a child; to utter child's talk. (more info) Etym:
• CHATTERATION
  The act or habit of chattering.
• RATTLEWINGS
  The golden-eye.
• RATTLEWEED
  Any plant of the genus Astragalus. See Milk vetch.
• JABBERINGLY
  In a jabbering manner.
• TWADDLE
  To talk a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle. Stanyhurst.
• JABBERER
  One who jabbers.
• RATTLE-HEADED
  Noisy; giddy; unsteady.
• RATTLEBOX
  1. A toy that makes a rattle sound; a rattle. An American herb , the seeds of which, when ripe, rattle in the inflated pod. Any species of Crotalaria, a genus of yellow-flowered herbs, with inflated, many-seeded pods.
• JABBER
  To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense; to chatter. Swift. (more info) Etym:
• JABBERNOWL
  See JOBBERNOWL
• CACKLER
  1. A fowl that cackles. 2. One who prattles, or tells tales; a tattler.
• CHATTERING
  The act or habit of talking idly or rapidly, or of making inarticulate sounds; the sounds so made; noise made by the collision of the teeth; chatter.
• RATTLEWORT
  See RATTLEBOX
• RATTLEMOUSE
  A bat. Puttenham.
• CHATTER
  Etym: 1. To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct. The jaw makes answer, as the magpie chatters. Wordsworth. 2. To talk idly, carelessly, or with undue rapidity; to jabber; to prate. To tame a shrew,
• BERATTLE
  To make rattle; to scold vociferously; to cry down. Shak.