Jabber (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Jabber

To talk thick and fast, as great praters usually do, to chatter like a magpye; also to speak a foreign language. He jabbered to rne in his damned outlandish parlez vous, but I could not understand him; he chattered to me in French, or some other foreign language, but I could not understand him.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

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