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gibber Definition

gib·ber (jibər)

intransitive verb, transitive verb

to speak or utter rapidly and incoherently; chatter unintelligibly

Etymology: echoic

noun

unintelligible chatter; gibberish

gibber Usage Examples

Object

  • wreck: However, having a gibbering wreck on the boundary did not cause undue concern on the pitch.
  • idiot: Anyway, what hope was there for a gibbering idiot who couldn't even say their own name?
  • mess: In five minutes, he is back in the restroom a total gibbering mess, saying that there was someone out there watching him.
  • mass: This was all too much for them, and they ended up like a gibbering mass of terrified jelly on the ground.
  • loon: Or, of course, he's just a gibbering loon.
  • idiocy: Complete gibbering idiocy, like forgetting one's own phone number in a crisis.

Preposition: like

  • ape: I phoned a few people and gibbered like an ape about driving trials until they told me to shut up.

Modifies a noun

  • plain: The country was dry as a bone and north winds screamed over the gibber plains while the sun fried us by day.

Modifying Another Word

  • away: After a short and frantic digging session entry was gained and the three of us sat gibbering away in a small mud floored chamber.
  • quietly: I went and gibbered quietly in a corner while John & Mark re-rigged the pitch with two 60 m ropes.

Preposition: in

  • corner: I went and gibbered quietly in a corner while John & Mark re-rigged the pitch with two 60 m ropes.

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