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gibbering adjective [ ˈdʒɪb(ə)rɪŋ ]

• speaking rapidly and unintelligibly, typically through fear or shock.
• "a gibbering idiot"

gibber verb

• speak rapidly and unintelligibly, typically through fear or shock.
• "they shrieked and gibbered as flames surrounded them"
Similar: prattle, rattle on, chatter, babble, ramble, drivel, jabber, patter, gabble, bumble, burble, twitter, go on, run on, mutter, mumble, maunder, prate, bleat, cackle, slabber, gab, yak, yap, yackety-yak, yabber, yatter, natter, yammer, blabber, jibber-jabber, blather, blether, blither, jaw, gas, shoot one's mouth off, witter, rabbit, chunter, waffle, flannel, run off at the mouth, mag, clack, twaddle, twattle,
Origin: early 17th century: imitative.


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