gab
verb/ɡæb/
/ɡæb/
[intransitive] (informal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they gab | /ɡæb/ /ɡæb/ |
| he / she / it gabs | /ɡæbz/ /ɡæbz/ |
| past simple gabbed | /ɡæbd/ /ɡæbd/ |
| past participle gabbed | /ɡæbd/ /ɡæbd/ |
| -ing form gabbing | /ˈɡæbɪŋ/ /ˈɡæbɪŋ/ |
- to talk for a long time about things that are not important
闲聊；空谈；瞎扯 - They’ve been gabbing on the phone for nearly two hours.
他们在电话里闲聊了近两个小时。
Word Originearly 18th cent.: variant of gob ‘mouth’. - They’ve been gabbing on the phone for nearly two hours.