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gibber

[jib-er, gib-] / ˈdʒɪb ər, ˈgɪb- /


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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

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

Or are we to assume that he gibbers?

From Pot-Boilers by Clive Bell

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

It grins, and gibbers, and utters its gibes, day and night.

From Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee by John Esten Cooke

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

He growled and gibbered at them like a witch hare and those nearest to him fell back in fear.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

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

Another time, I had to rescue the late, great NME writer Steven Wells from the site, as he started gibbering like a hallucinating Vietnam war veteran.

From The Guardian Sep. 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 stood shaking and gibbering to himself, until with a rush the wind came upon them, hissing and snarling over the marshes.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien




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