[f. prec. vb.] The act of jabbering; rapid and indistinct or unintelligible talk; gabble, chatter; gibberish.
1727. Swift, Gulliver, Lett. to Cousin Sympson, Wks. 1735, III. p. v. Who only differ from their Brother Brutes in Houyhnhnmland, because they use a Sort of Jabber.
1801. W. Taylor, in Monthly Mag., XII. 586. A sea-port jabber, formed … by the mishmash of a hundred dialects.
1838. J. L. Stephens, Trav. Greece, etc. 45/1. He … was utterly ignorant of any language but his own; despised all foreigners, and detested their ‘jabber.’
1893. Mrs. C. Praed, Outlaw & Lawmaker, II. xvi. 85. Prepared for what she called a ‘jabber.’
