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yabber
verb
to talk, converse, chat, now especially used of unintelligible language that is annoying; hence, to chatter, blabber, be noisy AUSTRALIA, 1841
Originally used in Australian pidgin. From an Australian Aboriginal language, possibly the Wuywurung language of the Melbourne region.- They yabbered excitedly and edged towards the bank. — Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, p. 155, 1947
- Truck-loads of troops, passing on the roads, yapped and yabbered like frenzied curs. — Eric Lambert, The Veterans, p. 112, 1954
- I’m goin’ to yabber with Harmon about them abos coming in. — Arthur Upfield, Bony and the Mouse, p. 69, 1959
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 98, 1977
- The two girls were busy wielding their axes as the New Australians drove up in their truck and got out, yabbering away in their own lingo. — Herb Wharton, Cattle Camp, p. 140, 1994
- They all took vague and undefined concepts, such as “Faith” or “God’s Word”, then yabbered on for pages and pages in this weighty-sounding but utterly vacuous religio-babble. — Christopher Brookmyre, Not the End of the World, p. 251, 1998
- As the club sink into the mire, and Mick McCarthy starts to yabber and shriek[.] — The Guardian, 24 March 2003
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