gibber1
/ˈdʒɪbə
/verb [no object]
Speak rapidly and unintelligibly, typically through fear or shock: they shrieked and gibbered as flames surrounded them (as adjective gibbering) a gibbering idiot...
- Somehow, it left me almost gibbering with fear.
- By this stage I wasn't babbling, more like 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.
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
gibber2
/ˈɡɪbə/(also gibber stone)
noun Australian
1A stone or boulder forming part of a boulder plain.We're standing on a desert rise six kilometres north of town overlooking a sea of shining gibbers.
1.1Any small stone.
Origin
From Dharuk giba 'stone'.