gab — OET · Shobdo

gab informal

verb

they were all gabbing away like crazy:

chatter, chitter-chatter, chat, talk, gossip, gabble, babble, prattle, jabber, blather, blab;

informal yak, yackety-yak, yabber, yatter, yammer, blabber, blah, blah-blah, jaw, gas, shoot one's mouth off;

British, informal witter, rabbit, chunter, natter, waffle;

North American, informal run off at the mouth;

Australian, New Zealand, informal mag;

archaic twaddle, clack, twattle.

noun

their meetings turn into marathons of gab:

chatter, chat, talk, gossip, blather, blether, gibberish, drivel;

chattering, chatting, talking, gossiping, jabbering, babbling, gabbling, prating, rambling;

informal yak, yackety-yak, yabbering, yatter, twaddle, blah, blah-blah;

British, informal wittering, waffle, natter, chuntering, flannel;

archaic clack, twattle.

□ the gift of the gab

you'd make a good lawyer—you've got the gift of the gab:

eloquence, fluency, clarity of speech, expressiveness, articulateness, articulacy, good command of the language;

persuasiveness;

informal a way with words, blarney.

▷antonyms inarticulacy.

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