gabble

Etymology

From gab + -le. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gabbelje (“to mock”), Dutch gabbelen (“to chatter, babble”), German Low German gabbeln (“to mock”).

verb

1. (transitive, intransitive) To talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning.
   Then he fell to gabbling strange and dreadful things which were not clearly understandable. 1900, Mark Twain, chapter 4, in The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
   Does she regard him simply as a workman come to do a job for her, someone whom she need never lay eyes on again; or is she gabbling to hide discomfiture? 2013, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 16, in The Childhood of Jesus, Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company, page 144
2. To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity.
   gabbling fowls

noun

1. Confused or unintelligible speech.
   a lot of gabble from witnesses 1914, G. K. Chesterton, The Wisdom of Father Brown