To talk without a purpose, usually about inane or pointless topics; to babble.
Origin
From Middle English gaffolle, a borrowing from Middle Dutch gaffel, gafel, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *gabulu, related to Old English gafol, ġeafel.
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