Definitions Related words Phrases Mentions History Easter eggs (New!)

Literary notes about gabble (AI summary)

Literary authors use the term “gabble” to evoke a sense of rapid, sometimes incoherent speech that borders on chaos, whether it be the clamor of a crowded room or the senseless prattle of idle chatter. Its application ranges from describing a flurry of hurried words in a courtroom [1] to satirizing pompous or trivial conversation in both political and artistic contexts [2]. In some passages, “gabble” almost becomes a metaphor for disorderly noise in nature, as when the distant calls of migrating birds are rendered into a surreal soundscape [3]. Other writers employ the word humorously or pejoratively, using it to underscore the futility or absurdity of relentlessly overburdened dialogue [4][5].
  1. A hurried gabble of words in a crowded court, and she was packed off to gaol.
    — from Satan's Invisible World Displayed; or, Despairing Democracy A Study of Greater New York by W. T. (William Thomas) Stead
  2. He must be used to living on mountain-tops,—and to feeling the wretched gabble of politics and national egotism beneath him.
    — from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist by Nietzsche
  3. High in the air, invisible, migrating wavies winged into the south, the distant gabble of their passing falling weirdly earthward.
    — from Deep Furrows by Herbert Joseph Moorhouse
  4. Look alive, now, and don’t let me hear any more confounded gabble, d’ye hear?”
    — from Dust: A Novel by Julian Hawthorne
  5. I call it gabble, but I know it to be wisdom.
    — from An Arkansas Planter by Opie Percival Read

More usage examples

Also see: Google, News, Images, Wikipedia, Reddit, BlueSky


Home   Reverse Dictionary / Thesaurus   Datamuse   Word games   Spruce   Feedback   Dark mode   Random word   Help


Color thesaurus

Use OneLook to find colors for words and words for colors

See an example

Literary notes

Use OneLook to learn how words are used by great writers

See an example

Word games

Try our innovative vocabulary games

Play Now

Read the latest OneLook newsletter issue: Threepeat Redux