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Definition of Gibber
1. Verb. Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly. "Sam and Sue gibber"
Generic synonyms: Mouth, Speak, Talk, Utter, Verbalise, Verbalize
Specialized synonyms: Babble, Blather, Blether, Blither, Smatter
Derivative terms: Blabber, Chatter, Chatterer, Gabble, Palaver, Piffle, Prate, Prater, Prattle, Prattler, Tittle-tattle, Twaddle, Twaddler
2. Noun. Unintelligible talking.
Generic synonyms: Bunk, Hokum, Meaninglessness, Nonsense, Nonsensicality
Specialized synonyms: Abracadabra, Babble, Babbling, Lallation, Blather, Blatherskite, Double Dutch, Double Talk, Gabble, Jabber, Jabbering, Mumbo Jumbo
3. Verb. Chatter inarticulately; of monkeys.
Definition of Gibber
1. n. A balky horse.
2. v. i. To speak rapidly and inarticulately.
Definition of Gibber
1. Noun. gibberish, unintelligible speech ¹
2. Verb. To jabber, talk rapidly and unintelligibly or incoherently. ¹
3. Noun. boulder, stone ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gibber
1. to jabber [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: jabber
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gibber
Literary usage of Gibber
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"speaks of gibber as possessing a weak pipe, and an inexpressive, meagre countenance.
As a tragic actor he tried the patience of the audience until he was ..."
2. Quarrels of Authors: Or, Some Memoirs for Our Literary History, Including by Isaac Disraeli (1814)
"THE Quarrel with gibber may serve to check the haughtiness of Genius; Good-humour
can gently draw a boundary round that arbitrary power, whenever the ..."
3. Works by Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1838)
"Though he condescended to commend gibber once, he mentioned him ... gibber had
nothing to lose ; when Pope had exhausted all his malignity upon him, ..."
4. The Romance of the Irish Stage: With Pictures of the Irish Capital in the by Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy (1897)
"Susanna Maria gibber and her spouse—One Stint the candle-snuffer—Mrs. Cibber's
... Some ill fate induced her to marry Theophilus gibber, son of old Colley ..."
5. Memoirs of the Life of David Garrick, Esq.: Interspersed with Characters and by Thomas Davies (1781)
"Death of Mrs. gibber—Of Mr. - Some-material ... by the lofs of Mrs. gibber, who
died in January 1766; and Mr. Quin, who had .retired from .the ..."
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