- present participle of gibber.
gibbering
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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
But one glance at Gammell’s hollow-eyed ghouls, shrieking skeletal brides, and gibbering specters told any kid that here was something that danced right on the edge of taboo.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2019
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
More astonishing, perhaps, was the fact that time travel hadn’t broken my brain; that by some miracle, I had not yet devolved into a gibbering crazy person ranting on a street corner.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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