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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of gibber.

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Examples

  • He gibbers on like an idiot while processing a plan and somehow finds the right, most powerful words to say.

    Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Common Superhero Day Jobs, Part 2 2009

  • "Would you like some tea?" she quavers, desperately trying to ignore the profound threat embodied by the other, but her evasions soon fading into ineffectual squeaks and gibbers.

    I Don't Believe in Outer Space – review 2011

  • The funeral procession linked to an image of water, the sea with crashes of wailing waves and a lone boat floating through it all. *gibbers with hearts in eyes* I love love her writing style.

    Review: A Girl Made of Dust by Nathalie Abi-Ezzi Ah Yuan // wingstodust 2010

  • The entrance hall was alive with the recorded gibbers, chitters, squawks, and caterwauls of the animal kingdom.

    Masked Lou Anders 2010

  • The entrance hall was alive with the recorded gibbers, chitters, squawks, and caterwauls of the animal kingdom.

    Masked Lou Anders 2010

  • The stork-like Mr. Abele hunches and cowers; he gibbers his text softly, almost breathlessly; Mr. Sales puts up a little more of a fight with his youthful, higher vocal range, but he too lies down to die.

    Futility Finds a (Quiet) Voice 2010

  • One of her boyfriends talks gibberish, and she gibbers back.

    TOO MANY MURDERS Colleen McCullough 2009

  • M. wud go owt an drink, cum home an stagger an make no sens an deny he drank an yoo cud smell it on him, an he wuz verballee abusive tew us care gibbers an kissed a femail rezzidint aginst her will an towtallee lawst his mind last weekend an pored teh gassoline awl ober owr gardin. we duzn no whai.

    PARTNERSHIP - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • Filled with, as he put it, "the wibber-gibbers" that his theories of transmutation would cause an uproar, he even drew up a will tasking his wife with publishing the book after he was gone.

    James Finn Garner: A Modest Proposal: The Darwin Airlift 2008

  • Like Dangerfield, A.N. Wilson can grasp the encapsulating anecdote and the numinous coincidence, and capture the manner in which tragedy gibbers happily over the shoulders of the group photographed on the well-kept lawn.

    Downhill All the Way 2006

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