Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To prattle and chatter unintelligibly.
- n. Unintelligible or foolish talk.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To speak inarticulately; speak incoherently or senselessly.
- n. One who guts or eviscerates fish.
- n. In botany, a pouch-like enlargement of the base of a calyx, corolla, etc.; a gibbosity.
- n. A big stone or boulder; an overhanging rock.
- n. A balky horse; a jibber.
Wiktionary
- n. gibberish, unintelligible speech
- v. To jabber, talk rapidly and unintelligibly or incoherently.
- n. boulder, stone
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A balky horse.
- v. To speak rapidly and inarticulately.
WordNet 3.0
- v. chatter inarticulately; of monkeys
- v. speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
- n. unintelligible talking
Etymologies
- From native Australian (Wiktionary)
- Probably back-formation from gibberish. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Gazing out of windows is like watching TV for cats, but they never use teleprompters to "gibber" at birds.”
“I even disregarded the fact that "gibber" is a verb, and not the noun "gibberish".”
“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.”
“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.”
“Could you get the guys who taught you to sob and gibber with the impossibility of their relationship with the people they taught?”
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“After that he will be left to gibber his visions to padded walls.”
“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.”
“So now I make chicken masaman curry and gibber for a while.”
“Let the old warhorses of the staff gibber about the importance of Palmyra as the crossing of the great caravan roads to the east and the south.”
“The denialists will continue to gibber and spin, of course, but here's the skinny:”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘gibber’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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The weird, the wonderful and the plai...
Loved for their ingenuity, an exact description, or simply for the pure joy of it.
acidulous, aprosdoketon, higgledy-piggledy, lexicographical, ninja, audacious, somnabulist, shivaree, amorphous, quidnunc, glib, melancholy and 353 more...
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El perro hace guau guau
Animal sounds in different languages, and the verbs that specify them.
Since Georgetown took down their page, the current definitive website for this information is:
Abbott ani...øf-øf, knor knor, groin groin, grunz, röf-röf, boo boo, hrgu hrgu, nöff-nöff, oink-oink, zumbar, ulular, rebuznar and 154 more...
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Desert ingredients
dune, sand, wind, cactus, wadi, oasis, gibber, barchan, bilby, arroyo, mirage, heat and 59 more...
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Fancy Frills
Words I might not use in day to day language..
condescending, belligerent, antepenultimate, impasse, agonistic, decrepit, cathartic., Evanesce, dog ear, uber, gibber, audacious and 4 more...
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Words that have gone out of fashion
words are fashionable -wane and wax - in usage. This is an open list of those words now out of fashion.
marconigram, flapper, bully, glockenspiel, periphrastic, bouffant, cackle, oldfangled, brigadoon, nohow, cat-salt, indecorous and 45 more...
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summerwing's Words
proctosigmoidoscopy, horrendous, cichlid, implode, nostalgic, firmament, elucidate, quintet, rhombus, mack, pithy, rambunctious and 304 more...
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Quaintnesses
For those who wish no words were ever forgotten
opprobrium, tedium, encomium, odium, ire, enmity, beguile, wile, brazen, popinjay, squit, hoity-toity and 1161 more...
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nominative case collection
wine stopper, pyre, roster, hamper, moleskin, elastic, pinnacle, facsimile, nook, plonk, contortionist, dismay and 342 more...
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That's right, another list
muck-a-muck, ipse dixit, solipsism, anticlinal, analogical, amoral, alogical, synclinal, disinclined, iconological, studly, flitch and 179 more...
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Tolland's list
Those I've come across and try to keep fresh within my mind.
clandestine, dysphoric, indictive, vigil, fractious, assiduous, indefatigable, ubiquitous, insidious, paroicous, aplomb, sangfroid and 654 more...
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kingrat47's Words
procrustean, devolution, cacophony, hippopotamus, crunch, beware, chortled, sibilant, subtle, undermine, acromegaly, acropolis and 645 more...
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ikepela's Words
quixotic, tempestuous, myriad, bubble, chevalier, archaic, soma, springs, strokes, snicker, lunacy, electricityscape and 110 more...
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to be sorted
litter, palanquin, aver, catamite, phlox, pliant, modicum, poorthink, cow, decalogue, caveat, dais and 175 more...
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animal sound verbs
limited to non-onomatopoeic words
chitter, gibber, hum, buzz, chirrup, mew, whistle, boom, bellow, caterwaul, fink, low and 49 more...
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Words that I enjoy
Words whose spellings or pronunciations endear me to them.
fascinating, chalk, knickers, lugubrious, veracity, scintillating, brilliantine, coloratura, phoenix, paronomasia, parallax, occident and 24 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for gibber.
grodzman A noise a monkey makes. Apr 3, 2008
bilby Australian - stone, boulder. Pronounced with a hard 'g'. Dec 6, 2007