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gabby

[gab-ee] / ˈgæb i /


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She leaned more on bodily frailty and the gabby momentum of her singular and hapless characters’ thoughts than on active violence.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 25, 2022

I think of those worn-out L-wedges and know that beneath the gabby cool is a grinding longshoreman who put in a lot of overtime.

From Golf Digest ● Jun. 11, 2017

After college, he tried and failed to persuade the C.I.A. to employ him; the real-life agency, unlike its fictional counterparts, prefers not to hire young men who are gabby and insubordinate.

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 3, 2017

He said he was concerned potential employers might not be eager to hire someone so gabby about a former workplace.

From Slate ● Nov. 7, 2016

He was more like some gabby old codger who would sit next to you on a bus and try to show you bits of paper he kept folded in his wallet.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Such channels are already scarce, and they will get scarcer still as more and gabbier satellites for communication, navigation and weather watching take to space.

From Time Magazine Archive

When asked to identify the best trash talker on the offensive side of the ball, receiver DeVante Parker didn’t hesitate in identifying his quarterback as the gabbiest.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 3, 2023

Werner Herzog’s chatty, mostly fascinating contribution to this year’s Seattle International Film Festival was this talkathon featuring several of the world’s gabbiest prophets.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2016

Geckos are the gabbiest, and some produce “a variety of chirps, clicks, and squeaks, some inaudible to humans,” Espinoza says.

From National Geographic ● Oct. 24, 2015

Last week the fans got a new radio & TV announcer, and the gabbiest one of all: old-time Movie Comic Joe E. Brown.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yes! heroic Swan, I love thee even when thou gabbiest like a goose; for thy geese helped to save the Capitol.

From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge




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