jabbered

Spoke rapid gibberish

Jabbered is the past tense of jabber, meaning to talk rapidly and excitedly in a way that's hard to follow.

The word suggests speech that comes out in a rushed stream, often unintelligible or nonsensical: The children jabbered away in the back seat.

He jabbered something about conspiracies before hanging up.

chatter

babbled

Spoke rapidly, incoherently

yammered · nattered · blabbered · rambled · chitchatted · gossiped · twittered · pattered · gabbed · tittle-tattled

unintelligible

gibberish

Unintelligible speech or writing

incoherent · nonsensical · incomprehensible · muddled · jumbled · confused · meaningless · indecipherable · unclear · scrambled

rapid

blurted

Uttered without restraint

sputtered · spouted · fired off · rushed · streamed · let fly · burst out · spilled

excited

exclaimed

Spoke suddenly, loudly

burbled · raved · squealed · bubbled · fizzed · chirped · trilled · piped · twittered · crowed

Opposites
speech clarity and coherence

jabberedarticulated

Having segments that bend

enunciated · discoursed · expounded · orated · declaimed

speech pace and deliberation

jabbereddrawled

Spoke with elongated vowels

paused · hesitated · intoned

presence versus absence of speech

jabberedsaid nothing

kept quiet · clammed up · listened

Phrases
Family

jabber, jabberwocky, jabbering, jabbers, jabberer, jabberers

Familiarity
Top 200,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G