gibbering

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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

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

Henry—imagining, perhaps, some trembling Kassandra gibbering prophecies to a chorus of policemen—was far more concerned about the psychic.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt