Etymology

bafflegabble

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English gabble ← Middle English gabben ← Old English gabban
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The story

  1. Frenchbafouerder.?
  2. Frenchbeferder.?
  3. Englishbaffle
  4. Proto-Germanic*gabbōną
  5. Proto-West Germanic*gabbōn
  6. Old Englishgabban
  7. Middle Englishgabben
  8. Englishgab
  9. Englishgabble
  10. English todaybafflegabble

From baffle + gabble.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.