yabble
Sc. var. gabble n. and v.; hence yabbler = gabbler. (Cf. yab, yabber = gab, gabber.)
| 1808 Jamieson, To yabble, v.n., to gabble, Fife. 1819 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 204 And than sic skellochin' and shout,..Was never sic a yabble! 1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xi, There was a general..clustering about him..as Samie ‘yabbled’ out the particulars. 1901 Lawson Remin. Dollar Acad. 48 An outpost of these cacklers and yablers sounded the alarm. |