yabber

[ yab-er ]

noun

, Australian.

1. jabber.

yabber

/ ˈjæbə /

verb

1. intr to talk or jabber

noun

1. talk or jabber

Word History and Origins

Origin of yabber¹

First recorded in 1870–75; perhaps alteration, by association with jabber, of a word based on ya- “speak, talk,” in Gabi (an Australian Aboriginal language spoken in the Maryborough district, southern Queensland)

Word History and Origins

Origin of yabber¹

C19: from a native Australian language yabba talk, probably influenced by jabber

Example Sentences

I'm actually perfectly fine for them to yabber on incessantly.

From Fox News

Jane King, a friend of Gully’s helping at the lodge, calls it “political yibber yabber.”

From Los Angeles Times

Imagine the aching loneliness, the black pool of terrifying existential angst, that might be encountered in a whole six minutes’ absence from all our yabber, yabber, yabber over 365 days.

From The Guardian

“He’ll be down with the books. My old septon used to say that books are dead men talking. Dead men should keep quiet, is what I say. No one wants to hear a dead man’s yabber.”

From Literature

To make this seem exciting, they'd yabber that "the net" was "closing", or read out exhaustive lists of how many the guns the police had.

From The Guardian