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Definition of yabber in English: yabberverbˈjabəˈyabər [no object]informal Chatter. 〈非正式〉唠叨,喋喋不休 what's he yabbering about? Example sentencesExamples - Go have a look and see what he is yabbering on about here.
- No-one has really run with the story; there's a fair bit of on-line yabbering, but strictly along partisan blog lines.
- I had gone straight to work after school, feeling I couldn't stand having to listen to my mother yabber on about her problems with having to raise me and the baby all by herself.
- So the house was full of hot, sweaty men - yabbering away about the cricket.
- Instead, I'll yabber on about how I enjoyed an extremely hedonistic weekend that was so unrelenting I had to neglect writing entries here for two whole days.
- On the train, there's an Australian woman yabbering into her mobile about her recent purchases.
- I, alone at a table, climbed outside a bottle of zinfandel and some joyful tagliolini gratinati (I don't eat a lot of pasta but my stomach needed it) and embarrassed myself yabbering drunkenly at strangers.
- Before I could stop myself I was yabbering on excitedly.
- It's bad enough people yabbering on when you're in a library but when it comes to brain-bubbling, mind-twistingly awful ring tones, there should be no escape.
- To the right of him, coming down was another man, ugly and tall, yabbering into his mobile, displaying too much gold jewellery.
- Harold, stop yabbering before you say something you might regret.
- Yummy mummies are still yabbering away on cellphones while jogging with luxury prams.
- What's all this yabber, yabber, yabber for two hours every week?
- What're yeh yabbering about now? ‘he barked from the floor.’
- Even when he had finished his purchase, he continued yabbering away, commenting on the box of pliers she had on the counter.
- The last girl who ranted was yabbering on about being a comfortable C and someone else told her to get implants - what is all of this competition about breast size?
- On a bracing autumn night, consuming cold lager, watching opera in Covent Garden from a balcony bar and yabbering away in the company of Jen, Mat and Meg… life in London is good.
- Bush keeps yabbering on about how people should donate to the Red Cross and Catholic Charities.
- We had spent almost all night yabbering to each other.
- Kev finished off by yabbering on about brains connecting to computers and thought-control of objects.
Synonyms prattle, babble, chatter, twitter, prate, gabble, jabber, go on, run on, rattle away, rattle on, yap, jibber-jabber, patter, blether, blither, maunder, ramble, drivel prattle, chatter, twitter, babble, talk, prating, gabble, jabber, blether, rambling
OriginProbably from Wuywurung (an Aboriginal language). Rhymesabba, blabber, dabber, grabber, jabber, stabber Definition of yabber in US English: yabberverbˈyabər [no object]informal Chatter. 〈非正式〉唠叨,喋喋不休 what's he yabbering about? Example sentencesExamples - So the house was full of hot, sweaty men - yabbering away about the cricket.
- Bush keeps yabbering on about how people should donate to the Red Cross and Catholic Charities.
- Before I could stop myself I was yabbering on excitedly.
- To the right of him, coming down was another man, ugly and tall, yabbering into his mobile, displaying too much gold jewellery.
- What're yeh yabbering about now? ‘he barked from the floor.’
- On the train, there's an Australian woman yabbering into her mobile about her recent purchases.
- Harold, stop yabbering before you say something you might regret.
- I, alone at a table, climbed outside a bottle of zinfandel and some joyful tagliolini gratinati (I don't eat a lot of pasta but my stomach needed it) and embarrassed myself yabbering drunkenly at strangers.
- I had gone straight to work after school, feeling I couldn't stand having to listen to my mother yabber on about her problems with having to raise me and the baby all by herself.
- Even when he had finished his purchase, he continued yabbering away, commenting on the box of pliers she had on the counter.
- Go have a look and see what he is yabbering on about here.
- Kev finished off by yabbering on about brains connecting to computers and thought-control of objects.
- It's bad enough people yabbering on when you're in a library but when it comes to brain-bubbling, mind-twistingly awful ring tones, there should be no escape.
- The last girl who ranted was yabbering on about being a comfortable C and someone else told her to get implants - what is all of this competition about breast size?
- On a bracing autumn night, consuming cold lager, watching opera in Covent Garden from a balcony bar and yabbering away in the company of Jen, Mat and Meg… life in London is good.
- We had spent almost all night yabbering to each other.
- Yummy mummies are still yabbering away on cellphones while jogging with luxury prams.
- What's all this yabber, yabber, yabber for two hours every week?
- Instead, I'll yabber on about how I enjoyed an extremely hedonistic weekend that was so unrelenting I had to neglect writing entries here for two whole days.
- No-one has really run with the story; there's a fair bit of on-line yabbering, but strictly along partisan blog lines.
Synonyms prattle, babble, chatter, twitter, prate, gabble, jabber, go on, run on, rattle away, rattle on, yap, jibber-jabber, patter, blether, blither, maunder, ramble, drivel prattle, chatter, twitter, babble, talk, prating, gabble, jabber, blether, rambling
OriginProbably from Wuywurung (an Aboriginal language). |