Verboticism: Dallygabber
DEFINITION: n. A chronic slow talker, who plods relentlessly, even when everyone else has figured out what they are trying to say. v. To talk in a painfully slow manner.
Dallygabber
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: dal/ly/gab/ber
Sentence: It took Frank, a classic dallygabber, three minutes to say what most people could in thirty seconds. It became so frustrating that everyone was finishing his sentences for him.
Etymology: dally + gab + gabber
Points: 431
Comments: Dallygabber
porsche - 2007-03-02: 10:30:00
Is the Dalai Lama a dallygabber?
Jabberwocky - 2007-03-02: 10:33:00
I suspect the Dalai Lama is a dilly dallying dallgabber.
Jabberwocky - 2007-03-02: 10:34:00
oops I meant a dilly dallying dallygabber
wordmeister - 2007-03-02: 10:50:00
A dillying dallygabber? I guess he would go on, and on, and on... Which might be good, unless it was all talk and no action.
Stevenson0 - 2007-03-02: 17:54:00
I think this has become a silly dilly dallying dallygabber discourse.