jabber
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jabber¹
- /ˈd͡ʒæbə(ɹ)/
Rhymes with -æbə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
From Middle English jaberen, javeren, chaveren (“to chatter, babble”), dissimilated forms of jablen, chavelen (“to jabber”), from Middle English chavel ("jaw"; > modern English jowl). Equivalent to jowl + -er (iterative suffix).
verb jabbers · jabbering · jabbered
- To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense. 1829, James Hogg, The Shepherd’s Calendar, New York: A.T. Goodrich, Volume I, Chapter 9, “Mary Burnet,” p. 184, Allanson made some sound in his throat, as if attempting to speak, but his tongue refused its office, and he only jabbered.
- To utter rapidly or indistinctly; to gabble. She had Lord James' collar in one big fist and she pounded the table with the other and talked a blue streak. Nobody could make out plain what she said, for she was mainly jabbering Swede lingo, but there was English enough, of a kind, to give us some idee.
noun
- Rapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance; gibberish. 1735, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, in The Works of Jonathan Swift, edited by George Faulkner, Dublin, 1735, Volume 3, A Letter from Capt. Gulliver to his Cousin Sympson, pp. v-vi, And, is there less Probability in my Account of the Houyhnhnms or Yahoos, when it is manifest as to the latter, t
jabber²
- /ˈd͡ʒæbə(ɹ)/
Rhymes with -æbə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
Etymology tree
English jab
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzios
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English jabber
From jab + -er.
noun jabbers
- One who or that which jabs. Have the boys box, one jabbing and the other practicing the methods of boxing a jabber.
- One who administers a hypodermic injection. Like Claire, these “secret jabbers” are keeping it private even from their closest family and friends.
- A kind of hand-operated corn planter. The jabber was the most popular hand-operated corn planter ever devised. […] Inset shows jaws closed for jabbing (left) and open for depositing kernels (right).
