Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To prattle and chatter unintelligibly.
- noun Unintelligible or foolish talk.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To speak inarticulately; speak incoherently or senselessly.
- noun One who guts or eviscerates fish.
- noun In botany, a pouch-like enlargement of the base of a calyx, corolla, etc.; a gibbosity.
- noun A big stone or boulder; an overhanging rock.
- noun A balky horse; a jibber.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A balky horse.
- intransitive verb To speak rapidly and inarticulately.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
gibberish , unintelligible speech - verb To
jabber , talk rapidly andunintelligibly orincoherently . - noun
boulder ,stone
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb chatter inarticulately; of monkeys
- verb speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
- noun unintelligible talking
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Gazing out of windows is like watching TV for cats, but they never use teleprompters to "gibber" at birds.
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I even disregarded the fact that "gibber" is a verb, and not the noun "gibberish".
Army Rumour Service 2009
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I even disregarded the fact that "gibber" is a verb, and not the noun "gibberish".
Army Rumour Service 2009
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So to pick up on the theme of my previous post: if you'd care to be precise about what (in your opinion) constitutes "gibber" in my posts, I'd be only too happy to discuss it with you.
Army Rumour Service 2009
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I even disregarded the fact that "gibber" is a verb, and not the noun "gibberish".
Army Rumour Service 2009
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After that he will be left to gibber his visions to padded walls.
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His shoulders are broad, his nostrils wide, his chest is deep, his blood is pure; he will continue to gibber in Bughouse Alley long after I have swung off and escaped the torment of the penitentiaries of California.
Chapter 3 2010
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So now I make chicken masaman curry and gibber for a while.
come down off your throne and leave your body alone truepenny 2009
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But to lose control, to have his soul upset by the pangs of the flesh, to screech and gibber like an ape, to become the veriest beast -- ah, that was what was so terrible.
Lost Face 2010
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Could you get the guys who taught you to sob and gibber with the impossibility of their relationship with the people they taught?
Exclusive /Film Interview: Mike Newell, Director of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | /Film 2010
bilby commented on the word gibber
Australian - stone, boulder. Pronounced with a hard 'g'.
December 6, 2007
grodzman commented on the word gibber
A noise a monkey makes.
April 4, 2008