gibber
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It's one of the novel's funniest scenes: the men gibber through a jungle – lost in space and out of their Edwardian gourds.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 11, 2010
"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
Suddenly, from just over her head, she heard a weird, tremulous cry, half wail, half gibber.
From Time Magazine Archive
For a moment she stared incredulous, as if he had begun to gibber in an unknown tongue-"Stannis and Renly are fighting each other!"
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Today, as Amanda in Private Lives, she whines, gibbers and snorts with all the grace of an untutored Eliza Doolittle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two men in each gang are "splitters"; two "gibbers."
From American Merchant Ships and Sailors by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot
We'd started out with gibbers in our clobber and our 'ats.
From 'Hello, Soldier!' Khaki Verse by Edward Dyson
There is something in the notion, for it was a risky trip, And a spectre is a nuisance when he gibbers on board ship.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 1, 1890 by Various
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 L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
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
And sometimes I have to remind myself that in addition to being Terry Gilliam the great director, Terry Gilliam the visionary, this is also Cardinal Fang, the one who gibbered about the Spanish Inquisition.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2014
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
The music – arcing, frantic atonal guitar and gibbering backing vocals – sounds deranged; Bowie sings like a man on the brink of a nervous breakdown.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2020
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
She was surrounded by the forces of night, heard but not seen: the gibbering of coyotes and the howling of wolves and the screaming of owls, which were said to carry an evil spirit.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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