To gabble is to talk so fast that words run together. Gabble away, gabbling nervously, gabble at him.
It says the speech is unclear as well as fast, which is what separates it from gallop or rattle through. Geese gabble too. Note the pair of similar words — babble is nonsense, gabble is speed, and both were made from the sound.
1verbgabbleTo talk so fast that words run together.
“She was so nervous that she gabbled her speech and nobody understood a word.”
gabble is a way of speaking.
An imitative word, made from the sound, related to Dutch gabbelen, to chatter.
From gab + -le. Cognate with stq gabbelje (“to mock”), Dutch gabbelen (“to chatter, babble”), German Low German gabbeln (“to mock”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA