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 Alexander Maclaren
We'd started out with gibbers in our clobber and our 'ats.
From 'Hello, Soldier!' Khaki Verse by Edward Dyson
Is it a Ghost that never clanks his chains, That never gibbers, and that bangs no door: But quietly and peacefully remains In calm possession of some upper floor?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 14 1890 by Various
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
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
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
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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