Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To prattle and chatter unintelligibly.
  • noun Unintelligible or foolish talk.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A balky horse; a jibber.
  • noun A big stone or boulder; an overhanging rock.
  • noun One who guts or eviscerates fish.
  • noun In botany, a pouch-like enlargement of the base of a calyx, corolla, etc.; a gibbosity.
  • To speak inarticulately; speak incoherently or senselessly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To speak rapidly and inarticulately.
  • noun A balky horse.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun gibberish, unintelligible speech
  • verb To jabber, talk rapidly and unintelligibly or incoherently.
  • noun boulder, stone

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb chatter inarticulately; of monkeys
  • verb speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
  • noun unintelligible talking

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Imitative.]

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uncertain, see gibberish

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From native Australian

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Examples

  • Gazing out of windows is like watching TV for cats, but they never use teleprompters to "gibber" at birds.

    Dave Astor: Why Cats Are Abandoning Obama 2009

  • I even disregarded the fact that "gibber" is a verb, and not the noun "gibberish".

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • I even disregarded the fact that "gibber" is a verb, and not the noun "gibberish".

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • So to pick up on the theme of my previous post: if you'd care to be precise about what (in your opinion) constitutes "gibber" in my posts, I'd be only too happy to discuss it with you.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • I even disregarded the fact that "gibber" is a verb, and not the noun "gibberish".

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • After that he will be left to gibber his visions to padded walls.

    Chapter 7: The Bishop's Vision 2010

  • His shoulders are broad, his nostrils wide, his chest is deep, his blood is pure; he will continue to gibber in Bughouse Alley long after I have swung off and escaped the torment of the penitentiaries of California.

    Chapter 3 2010

  • So now I make chicken masaman curry and gibber for a while.

    come down off your throne and leave your body alone truepenny 2009

  • But to lose control, to have his soul upset by the pangs of the flesh, to screech and gibber like an ape, to become the veriest beast -- ah, that was what was so terrible.

    Lost Face 2010

  • Could you get the guys who taught you to sob and gibber with the impossibility of their relationship with the people they taught?

    Exclusive /Film Interview: Mike Newell, Director of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | /Film 2010

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  • Australian - stone, boulder. Pronounced with a hard 'g'.

    December 6, 2007

  • A noise a monkey makes.

    April 4, 2008