Meaning of Jabber | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Rapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance; gibberish.
   uncountable
2. One who or that which jabs.
3. One who administers a hypodermic injection.
   informal
4. A kind of hand-operated corn planter.

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Examples

“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.”

“Two tongues from the depths, Alike only as a yellow cat and a green parrot are alike, Fling their staccato tantalizations Into a wildcat jabber Over a gossamer web of unanswerables.”

“Mark Pauline has a good line of gab, in his elliptical, left-handed fashion. He's at relative rhetorical ease with classy theoretical jabber such as emergent behavior, cyborganics, chaos theory, transparent interfaces, artificial life, and the machinic phylum.”

“Have the boys box, one jabbing and the other practicing the methods of boxing a jabber.”

“Like Claire, these “secret jabbers” are keeping it private even from their closest family and friends.”

“The jabber was the most popular hand-operated corn planter ever devised. […] Inset shows jaws closed for jabbing (left) and open for depositing kernels (right).”

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