Antonyms for jabber


Grammar : Verb
Spell : jab-er
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdʒæb ər


Definition of jabber

Origin :
  • 1650s, spelling variant of Middle English jablen (c.1400), also javeren, jaberen, probably ultimately echoic. Related: Jabbered; jabbering. The noun is 1727, from the verb.
  • verb talk incessantly and trivially
Example sentences :
  • Then a whole string of jabber and arm wavin', with some countin' in the middle of it.
  • Extract from : « Kent Knowles: Quahaug » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • Never heard in all my travels such a jabber about wives and kids.
  • Extract from : « The Rescue » by Joseph Conrad
  • Are you goin' to keep up your jabber when I'm speakin' to the gentlemen?
  • Extract from : « A First Family of Tasajara » by Bret Harte
  • All the difference between us is, that you can jabber Dutch a little.
  • Extract from : « Tom, The Bootblack » by Horatio Alger
  • You stop here a little while, sir, and you will hear him begin to jabber.
  • Extract from : « Trapped by Malays » by George Manville Fenn
  • There is a little consultation and jabber, when I am told that I can have both for a franc.
  • Extract from : « Saunterings » by Charles Dudley Warner
  • In their jabber of tongues they said things about her as she passed.
  • Extract from : « The Dust Flower » by Basil King
  • He was quite close to her and in the jabber of voices she was silent.
  • Extract from : « Stubble » by George Looms
  • When we left a week later, he could jabber intelligently with any savage he met.
  • Extract from : « An African Adventure » by Isaac F. Marcosson
  • The screamer began to jabber like a maniac, punctuating his ravings with shrieks.
  • Extract from : « A Rock in the Baltic » by Robert Barr

Synonyms for jabber

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