Noun: jabber
| Singular | jabber |
| Plural | jabbers |
Sample Sentences
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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,
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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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Two tongues from the depths,
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Alike only as a yellow cat and a green parrot are alike,
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Fling their staccato tantalizations
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Into a wildcat jabber
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Over a gossamer web of unanswerables. [1918, Carl Sandburg, “Jabberers”, in Cornhuskers, New York: Henry Holt & Co, page 68:]
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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. [1996 July, Bruce Sterling, “Is Phoenix Burning”, in Wired, →ISSN:]
Nouns inflected like jabber
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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). See: Middle English Nouns '
chavel', English Nouns '
jowl'.