| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | Incessant and usually inconsequential talk: babble, blab, blabber, chat, chatter, jabber, palaver, prate, prattle, small talk. Slang : gab, gas, yak. See WORDS. | | VERB: | To talk volubly, persistently, and usually inconsequentially: babble, blabber, chatter, clack, jabber, palaver, prate, prattle, rattle (on), run on. Informal : go on, spiel. Slang : gab, gas, jaw, yak. Idioms: run off at the mouth, shoot the breeze (or bull) . See WORDS.
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