gibber

[US]/'dʒɪbə/
[UK]/'dʒɪbɚ/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n.a type of stone with sharp edges; unintelligible speech;(Gibber) a personal name in the US, UK, and Russia
v.to talk rapidly and incoherently, especially out of fear

Phrases & Collocations

gibberish

Example Sentences

they shrieked and gibbered as flames surrounded them.

What brought me to the woods was the prospect of living on earth with nothing between me and the earth—none of the electronic gibber- jabber.

"on the other hand , monkeys on mount ohira do not have to gibber with a high tone as trees there are low , " he said ." each group adopted their own accent depending upon their environment .

She tends to gibber when she's nervous.

The baby started to gibber in excitement.

His speech was nothing but gibber.

The old man would often gibber about his past adventures.

The drunkard continued to gibber nonsense all night long.

She gibbered incoherently after hitting her head.

The madman gibbered wildly as he ran through the streets.

The fever caused him to gibber deliriously.

The child gibbered happily as he played with his toys.

The professor's lecture was so complex that it sounded like gibber to the students.

Real-world Examples

Stop gibbering and tell me where he is!

Source: The Legend of Merlin

" Stop gibbering, " said Ron. " We've come to take you home with us."

Source: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Still gibbering with agitation, he walked away.

Source: The Room with a View (Part 1)

Plenty of action is one of the best therapies ever devised for curing " wibber gibbers" .

Source: The virtues of human nature.

He made movements with his lips as though he were speaking, but no sound issued from them. He gibbered like an idiot.

Source: The Moon and Sixpence (Condensed Version)

(gibbering) I had a nightmare that we were doing an episode of how to be smart.

Source: The daily life of a chatty orange.

" The cabin's as black as a pit, " Cecco said, almost gibbering, " but there is something terrible in there: the thing you heard crowing" .

Source: Peter Pan

But no sooner had he done this than something sprang up, so that instinctively he started back, and it began to gibber in piercing tones.

Source: Magician

And the " wibber gibbers" are nothing but old-fashioned gremlins that will run us hollow and destroy our power of action and our power of will.

Source: The virtues of human nature.

Buckland ended up by losing his mind and finished his days a gibbering wreck in a lunatic asylum in Clapham, not far from where Mantell had suffered his crippling accident.

Source: A Brief History of Everything

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