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gabby
What does gabby mean?
gabby (adjective): full of trivial conversation.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you pronounce gabby?
/ˈɡæbi/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does gabby come from?
From gab + -y.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “gabby” mean?
filled with a great quantity
Not quite: that's what laden means.
full of trivial conversation
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done on purpose; intentional
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every second one of a series
Not quite: that's what alternate means.
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