gibber

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He seldom uttered a sound beyond a gibber, and hardly seemed to be conscious.

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  1. intransitive verb To prattle and chatter unintelligibly.
  2. noun Unintelligible or foolish talk.

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  • But sitting here listening to all this gibber-jabber, it struck me that if you ink up Sheriff Finn's hands, you're liable to find some fingerprints that match the others on that knife The prosecutor was all for it, and even Sheriff Huck didn't put up much of a squawk. —  AHMM,November2006
  • From the darkness stepped a tall figure, no longer the shapeless gibber- ing thing that had, until now, been Arioch's fa- voured manifestation when visiting the Realm of Earth.
  • Because with your head submerged, you can't hear anyone's gibber-jabber. —  Mirror.co.uk - News
  • The freedom I have, now that I'm not longer chained to a desk, is gibber-inducing; I could go on and on about how cool it is (it is), I could go on and on about making up for lost time with my family but that is actually painful. —  Pet Cobra
  • He seldom uttered a sound beyond a gibber, and hardly seemed to be conscious. —  The Crooked House
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klatch ·  jabber ·  gabble ·  poltroonery ·  slink ·  hiccough ·  balderdash ·  piggy ·  prattle ·  burdock ·  gobble ·  stutter
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Probably back-formation from gibberish.

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  1. Also in comp. gibber-gabber and gibble-gabble, reduplications, with the usual variation of vowel, of gabber and gabble (which are assibilated in jabber and jabble), freq. forms of gab, q. v.
  2. from gib, v.
  3. Latin, from gibbus, hunched, gibbous: see gibbous.
  4. Native Australian.
 

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