jabber
v. 快而含糊地说, 吱吱喳喳地叫 n. 快而含糊不清的话
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1.
Rapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance; gibberish.
不可数1735, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, in The Works of Jonathan Swift, edited by George Faulkner, Dublin, 1735, Volume 3, A Letter from Capt. Gulliver to his Cousin Sympson, pp. v-vi, And, is there less Probability in my Account of the Houyhnhnms or Yahoos, when it is manifest as to the latter, there are so many Thousands even in this City, who only differ from their Brother Brutes in Houyhnhnmland, because they use a Sort of a Jabber, and do not go naked.
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One who or that which jabs.
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One who administers a hypodermic injection.
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A kind of hand-operated corn planter.
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To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense.
不及物1829, James Hogg, The Shepherd’s Calendar, New York: A.T. Goodrich, Volume I, Chapter 9, “Mary Burnet,” p. 184, Allanson made some sound in his throat, as if attempting to speak, but his tongue refused its office, and he only jabbered.
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To utter rapidly or indistinctly; to gabble.
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From Middle English jaberen, javeren, chaveren (“to chatter, babble”), dissimilated forms of jablen, chavelen (“to jabber”), from Middle English chavel ("jaw"; > modern English jowl). Equivalent to jowl + -er (iterative suffix).
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