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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of gibber; to talk incomprehensibly

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Examples

  • They mowed and gibbered in the moonlight, under crowns of drooping, golden blossoms.

    Koolau the Leper 2010

  • They floundered and gibbered and mowed at his feet, lord of life and death that he was, infinitely wise as he had so often proved himself, as he had this time proved himself again.

    CHAPTER XI 2010

  • He was a man and a monstrosity, as fearful a thing of fear as ever gibbered in the visions of a maddened brain.

    The Sleeping Wolf 2010

  • The wood flamed up and crackled, and we danced and gibbered with delight.

    CHAPTER XIII 2010

  • He was too occupied with his own vision, and vividly burned before him the sordid barrenness of a poorhouse ward, where an ancient, very like what he himself would become, maundered and gibbered and drooled for a crumb of tobacco for his old clay pipe, and where, of all horrors, no sip of beer ever obtained, much less six quarts of it.

    CHAPTER 2 2010

  • It became a nightmare chant, and he gibbered it to those that passed him on the trail.

    THE TASTE OF THE MEAT 2010

  • He gibbered his own rage and hurt, and, stooping, dealt Jerry a tremendous blow alongside the head and neck.

    CHAPTER VIII 2010

  • But he nearly screamed when she succumbed to that caress so at the very first of the courtship and mowed and gibbered and squealed little, queer, pig-like gurgly noises of delight.

    THE RED ONE 2010

  • "It was an ancient Chinese philosopher who is first recorded as having said, what doubtlessly the cave men before him gibbered, namely, that a woman pursues a man by fluttering away in advance of him."

    CHAPTER XXXVII 2010

  • He ached with desire to express and could but gibber prosaically as everybody gibbered.

    Chapter 11 2010

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