gabbler

English

Etymology

From gabble +‎ -er.

Noun

gabbler (plural gabblers)

1. One who gabbles, or prates loquaciously on a trifling subject.
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 70:

     To Bradly, Podson was a minor pub gabbler out of a hundred such. He had boozed away an evening with Podson because he was an attendant parasite on Doctor Ramsey.

Synonyms

• chatterer
• jabberer

Translations

One who gabbles

• Bulgarian: бърборко (bg) m (bǎrborko)

References

• gabbler in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
• “gabbler”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “gabbler”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

• grabble