as in to babble
to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly
stop gibbering, and pull yourself together!
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as in babble
unintelligible or meaningless talk
all I could get from her gibber was that something had exploded
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Recent Examples of gibber
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
18 Sep. 2023
For a while, police interest bent toward a Phud who had been warned he might be eliminated from the program, who had seemed almost exultant about the fire and gibbered gleefully about the media spotlight.
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New York Times,
13 Apr. 2018
Or is Tucker Carlson the exact opposite of a journalist and his broadcast the Platonic ideal of gibbering insanity?
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Amanda Arnold,
The Cut,
9 Apr. 2018
In issue two, Chang wanders around gibbering like a raw-meat lunatic while his skin tries to escape the little girl, who's keeping it as a pet.
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Maurice Martin,
WIRED,
1 Mar. 2002
Verb
But when the disheveled, withdrawn ex-friend shows up in the locker room gibbering about an evil spirit, Sam is mortified, impulsively knocking to the ground the grungy-looking Mason jar that Tamira has been carrying around.
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Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
18 Sep. 2023
For a while, police interest bent toward a Phud who had been warned he might be eliminated from the program, who had seemed almost exultant about the fire and gibbered gleefully about the media spotlight.
—
New York Times,
13 Apr. 2018
Or is Tucker Carlson the exact opposite of a journalist and his broadcast the Platonic ideal of gibbering insanity?
—
Amanda Arnold,
The Cut,
9 Apr. 2018
In issue two, Chang wanders around gibbering like a raw-meat lunatic while his skin tries to escape the little girl, who's keeping it as a pet.
—
Maurice Martin,
WIRED,
1 Mar. 2002
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gibber
Verb
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In the past, nWave films tended to be all about snappy dialogs and babbling protagonists.
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The teller babbles compulsively about past robberies, spilling details in a rush.
Noun
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Some children clustered there to jabber and run madly about, while others just wanted attention and knew how to get it.
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And given that these are not professional actors, or even (in most cases) people who aspire to be, LaBeouf’s words to them, full of deadly serious jabber about empathy and ego, are pumped up with an intensity that feels overdone and inappropriate.
Verb
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These hard-sided, pop-top adventure trucks look so cool that strangers will stop to chat with you — guaranteed.
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While Yahia chats with The Star, his daughter, Hannah, takes a tray of baklava out of the oven.
Noun
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Even Hauser can’t rescue this culturally insensitive, stereotype-perpetuating nonsense.
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Some beer companies even make canned versions of the drink, but forget that nonsense — there is nothing better than a fresh, handmade michelada.
Verb
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The fights were slightly delayed because of inclement weather, and so we were treated, first, to a quartet of chattering analysts wearing natty, snug suits.
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Vuvuzelas honked like a chorus of drunk geese, and spectators chattered excitedly.
Noun
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Some of the prattle can feel like treading water, a delaying tactic until the inevitable confrontation scene.
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The bizarre reality of daily life in a Southeast Asian scam compound—the tactics, the tone, the mix of cruelty and upbeat corporate prattle—is revealed at an unprecedented level of resolution in a leak of documents to WIRED from a whistleblower inside one such sprawling fraud operation.
Verb
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For Valentine's Day 2026, the retailer released a confetti glass icon candle that shoppers drooled over.
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Fighter Josh Hokit drooled at the weigh-in in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
Noun
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The quiet burble of bubbles rising toward the surface.
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In Mexico, such straightforward, graceful structures can nurture a burble of activities: selling crafts, supervising grandchildren, serving tamales, teaching dance classes, holding political meetings.
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“Gibber.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gibber. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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