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verb ˈdʒɪbəˈdʒɪbər [no object]Speak rapidly and unintelligibly, typically through fear or shock. they shrieked and gibbered as flames surrounded them Example sentencesExamples - By this stage I wasn't babbling, more like gibbering.
- ‘Yes, yes,’ the man gibbered, suddenly regaining his voice.
- The scientists gibbered amongst themselves, all unusually excited.
- He was led, gibbering, by his mum into the stark light of a side exit.
- He gibbered madly and his muscles spasmed, and he sunk to his knees in the muddy trench, his heart pumping his blood out into the soil.
- After a minute of two of stalking around the room, shaking and gibbering, I started looking around to see what had become of the chemical.
- A man in the middle of a particularly nasty nervous breakdown is gibbering.
- And all the time the two old girls are gibbering softly in language, laughing.
- He sways before the roaring inferno, blind and gibbering.
- They disappeared into the crowded room, gibbering good-naturedly.
- He scuttled off, gibbering with delight, to make it habitable.
- He spent the next day literally gibbering in his cell, while those in neighbouring cells threatened to kill him, because he had now kept them awake for three nights.
- Somehow, it left me almost gibbering with fear.
- Before I get to the part where I start gibbering and spluttering, I should begin by doing what I can manage coherently.
- They restrained the man as he writhed and gibbered.
- The day will come, soon enough, when I'm gibbering, and incoherent, but right now I'm in control and I don't want anyone else to know.
- But now I'm jumping up and down in my seat, gibbering like a chimp.
- The doctor, who can understand Hungarian, realised that the inmate was rambling and gibbering not in Russian but in Hungarian, which is not a Slavonic language.
- They're always gibbering and fighting - it can get to be too much for me to handle.
- Before Andrew could answer, the red light flicked off and a doctor came out, gibbering away in Japanese.
Synonyms prattle, rattle on, chatter, babble, ramble, drivel, jabber, patter, gabble, bumble, burble, twitter, flannel, go on, run on, mutter, mumble, maunder, prate, bleat, cackle Scottish & Irish slabber informal gab, yak, yap, yackety-yak, yabber, yatter, natter, yammer, blabber, jibber-jabber, blather, blether, blither, jaw, gas, shoot one's mouth off British informal witter, rabbit, chunter, waffle North American informal run off at the mouth Australian/New Zealand informal mag archaic clack, twaddle, twattle
Origin Early 17th century: imitative. Rhymes cribber, dibber, fibber, jibba, jibber, libber, ribber gibber2(also gibber stone) noun ˈɡɪbəˈɡɪbər Australian 1A stone or boulder forming part of a boulder plain. Example sentencesExamples - We're standing on a desert rise six kilometres north of town overlooking a sea of shining gibbers.
- 1.1 Any small stone.
Origin From Dharuk giba 'stone'. verbˈdʒɪbərˈjibər [no object]Speak rapidly and unintelligibly, typically through fear or shock. they shrieked and gibbered as flames surrounded them Example sentencesExamples - A man in the middle of a particularly nasty nervous breakdown is gibbering.
- He spent the next day literally gibbering in his cell, while those in neighbouring cells threatened to kill him, because he had now kept them awake for three nights.
- They restrained the man as he writhed and gibbered.
- They're always gibbering and fighting - it can get to be too much for me to handle.
- Somehow, it left me almost gibbering with fear.
- ‘Yes, yes,’ the man gibbered, suddenly regaining his voice.
- After a minute of two of stalking around the room, shaking and gibbering, I started looking around to see what had become of the chemical.
- He gibbered madly and his muscles spasmed, and he sunk to his knees in the muddy trench, his heart pumping his blood out into the soil.
- He scuttled off, gibbering with delight, to make it habitable.
- Before I get to the part where I start gibbering and spluttering, I should begin by doing what I can manage coherently.
- The scientists gibbered amongst themselves, all unusually excited.
- He sways before the roaring inferno, blind and gibbering.
- The day will come, soon enough, when I'm gibbering, and incoherent, but right now I'm in control and I don't want anyone else to know.
- He was led, gibbering, by his mum into the stark light of a side exit.
- They disappeared into the crowded room, gibbering good-naturedly.
- And all the time the two old girls are gibbering softly in language, laughing.
- Before Andrew could answer, the red light flicked off and a doctor came out, gibbering away in Japanese.
- The doctor, who can understand Hungarian, realised that the inmate was rambling and gibbering not in Russian but in Hungarian, which is not a Slavonic language.
- By this stage I wasn't babbling, more like gibbering.
- But now I'm jumping up and down in my seat, gibbering like a chimp.
Synonyms prattle, rattle on, chatter, babble, ramble, drivel, jabber, patter, gabble, bumble, burble, twitter, flannel, go on, run on, mutter, mumble, maunder, prate, bleat, cackle
Origin Early 17th century: imitative. nounˈɡɪbərˈɡibər Australian 1A stone or boulder forming part of a boulder plain. Example sentencesExamples - We're standing on a desert rise six kilometres north of town overlooking a sea of shining gibbers.
- 1.1 Any small stone.
Origin From Dharuk giba ‘stone’. |