gibber
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Some of them may gibber at you, particularly if they're coming up.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2012
"I like your watch," he says while I gibber into his big, beautiful, travel-befuddled face.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 18, 2010
And the ocean turned out to gibber rather than murmur.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 25, 2010
At night, rats squeak and gibber around the bases of the monuments.
From Time Magazine Archive
We were bunched beside the doors, trying not to gibber.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
Today, as Amanda in Private Lives, she whines, gibbers and snorts with all the grace of an untutored Eliza Doolittle.
From Time Magazine Archive
He pursues after the fleeing form that seems so fair, and when he reaches her side, and lifts her veil, eager to embrace the tempter, a hideous skeleton grins and gibbers at him.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms by Maclaren, Alexander
It grins, and gibbers, and utters its gibes, day and night.
From Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee by Cooke, John Esten
They say he appears and grovels on the ground and holds you by the legs and gibbers and moans like he did when he was alive.
From Rainbow Valley by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)
Miss STELLA, what does it mean when it gibbers like that?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 10, 1892 by Various
In Puritan poems, the forest gibbered and howled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2016
Very quickly, soldiers began emerging with bizarre symptoms; they shuddered and gibbered or became unable to speak at all.
From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2016
"I … I thought it was high," he gibbered, before trying to get fellow showbiz guests to bellow his catchphrase at him.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 7, 2012
Newman complained during his life time of the phantoms that "gibbered" instead of the real him.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2010
There was a noise then, from the desert, from far away, a distant howl, and the ghouls gibbered and they huddled closer to the flames.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
Wodehouse never exhausted the counterpoint between Bertie’s slangy gibbering and half-remembered literary allusions with Jeeves’ carefully modulated responses: “Very well, Jeeves, you agree with me that the situation is a lulu?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2025
Being a good host doesn’t mean you have to spend two hours gibbering in horror, being glared at by innocent people just trying to enjoy a nice meal.
From Slate ● Mar. 9, 2020
Hermes leads them, gibbering like bats, past various underworld landmarks, the white rock of Leukas, etc., and on their way they pass the δῆμον ὀνείρων, which Homer leaves undescribed and unexplained.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 17, 2018
“He sprawled on the floor, a gibbering, horror-stricken wretch, and confessed his sin,” Riis wrote.
From New York Times ● Feb. 9, 2018
“Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron.”
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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