Word of the Day: GABBERIES

ETYMOLOGY
from French gaberie (mockery, jest, deceit)

EXAMPLE
“…Those high-priced, verbose air- beaters, who think their gabberies are the centers of gravity for the entire universe, ought to be sent away back to sit down until they can learn to stand by the pledges in the platform of their party …”

From: The Literary Digest
Volume XXVI, March 1903
Territorial Press on Statehood Failure

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