gibber
Americanverb (used without object)
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gibbers,
present (3rd person singular)
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gibbered,
past participle, past
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gibbering
present participle
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to speak inarticulately or meaninglessly.
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to speak foolishly; chatter.
noun
verb
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to utter rapidly and unintelligibly; prattle
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(intr) (of monkeys and related animals) to make characteristic chattering sounds
noun
noun
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a stone or boulder
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(modifier) of or relating to a dry flat area of land covered with wind-polished stones
gibber plains
Other Word Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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gibbersimple
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gibberssimple
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have gibberedperfect
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has gibberedperfect
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am gibberingprogressive
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are gibberingprogressive
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is gibberingprogressive
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have been gibberingperfect progressive
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has been gibberingperfect progressive
Past
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gibberedsimple
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had gibberedperfect
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was gibberingprogressive
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were gibberingprogressive
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had been gibberingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of gibber
1595–1605; origin uncertain; perhaps frequentative of gib (obsolete) to caterwaul ( see gib 2); sense and pronunciation influenced by association with jabber
Vocabulary lists containing gibber
Example Sentences
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It's one of the novel's funniest scenes: the men gibber through a jungle – lost in space and out of their Edwardian gourds.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 11, 2010
"I like your watch," he says while I gibber into his big, beautiful, travel-befuddled face.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 18, 2010
And the ocean turned out to gibber rather than murmur.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 25, 2010
Given the tensions that gibber and flap through most marriages, Cordelia's affectations seem rather venial, particularly since her wealth makes Richard's existence so cushy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its high-pitched gibber gabber alarmed the saints again.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
Today, as Amanda in Private Lives, she whines, gibbers and snorts with all the grace of an untutored Eliza Doolittle.
From Time Magazine Archive
They say he appears and grovels on the ground and holds you by the legs and gibbers and moans like he did when he was alive.
From Rainbow Valley by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
Northly or Southly may I ride or walk Beneath the glacial Crag or fronded Stalk, But still the Spectre gibbers in my Ears And drowns my Spirits in a Sea of Talk.
From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. by Wallace Irwin
Two men in each gang are "splitters"; two "gibbers."
From American Merchant Ships and Sailors by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot
He never came back, and I often wonder if he is dead, or if he still gibbers about his millions in some asylum for the insane.
From The Road by Jack London
In Puritan poems, the forest gibbered and howled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2016
Very quickly, soldiers began emerging with bizarre symptoms; they shuddered and gibbered or became unable to speak at all.
From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2016
And sometimes I have to remind myself that in addition to being Terry Gilliam the great director, Terry Gilliam the visionary, this is also Cardinal Fang, the one who gibbered about the Spanish Inquisition.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2014
Newman complained during his life time of the phantoms that "gibbered" instead of the real him.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2010
There was a noise then, from the desert, from far away, a distant howl, and the ghouls gibbered and they huddled closer to the flames.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
But one glance at Gammell’s hollow-eyed ghouls, shrieking skeletal brides, and gibbering specters told any kid that here was something that danced right on the edge of taboo.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2019
Hermes leads them, gibbering like bats, past various underworld landmarks, the white rock of Leukas, etc., and on their way they pass the δῆμον ὀνείρων, which Homer leaves undescribed and unexplained.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 17, 2018
The men who leer after Candy are truly fatuous primates, fit for little but gibbering at the moon.
From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2018
Because while it is a very nice place, with a good French-dominated wine list, Walter Manzke’s turbocharged bistro cooking could turn just about anyone into a gibbering, gluttonous fool.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2017
“Is it men, or what? There’s nothing to be seen, heard or smelled. Come on, tell us something and stop gibbering, there’s a good chap.”
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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