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gabbler|ˈgæb(ə)lə(r)|
Also 7–8 gabler.
[f. gabble v. + -er1.]
One that gabbles.
1625Jackson Orig. Unbeliefe xxiv. 238 Such sharers in the office of intercession, as the Creeple and the Gabler are in mens benevolences at Faires or Markets. 1708Motteux Rabelais (1737) V. 215 Wheadling Gablers..Spoilers of Paper. 1780Johnson Lett. to Mrs. Thrale 27 July, We are none of the giddy gabblers, we think before we speak. 1879Sala Paris herself again (1880) I. xvii. 269 The few French gentlemen whom the guttural gabblers have not driven away sit silent in corners. |
