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
Given the tensions that gibber and flap through most marriages, Cordelia's affectations seem rather venial, particularly since her wealth makes Richard's existence so cushy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its high-pitched gibber gabber alarmed the saints again.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
Today, as Amanda in Private Lives, she whines, gibbers and snorts with all the grace of an untutored Eliza Doolittle.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Northly or Southly may I ride or walk Beneath the glacial Crag or fronded Stalk, But still the Spectre gibbers in my Ears And drowns my Spirits in a Sea of Talk.
From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. by Wallace Irwin
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 Alexander Maclaren
He never came back, and I often wonder if he is dead, or if he still gibbers about his millions in some asylum for the insane.
From The Road by Jack London
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
His hands and feet threshed in the tangle of the wild grapevine, and he whimpered and gibbered as he tried to get up.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
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
“Wash your hands, wash your hands” the prime minister kept gibbering last night.
From The Guardian ● May 26, 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
That sort of vitriol might have once been dismissed as the vile but essentially harmless gibbering of a clutch of lost boys.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 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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