Gibber

Definitions: Gibber

Gibber

Noun

1. Unintelligible talking.

Verb

1. Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly.

2. Chatter inarticulately; of monkeys.

Date "gibber" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Mining	An Australian term for a pebble or boulder; esp. one of the wind-polished or wind-sculptured stones that compose a desert pavement or the laggravels of an arid region. It is pronounced with a hard g. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Gibber

Synonyms: gibberish (n), blab (v), blabber (v), chatter (v), clack (v), gabble (v), maunder (v), palaver (v), piffle (v), prate (v), prattle (v), tattle (v), tittle-tattle (v), twaddle (v). (additional references)

Synonym by domain: gibbered (medicine).

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Stammering	Mumble, mutter; maud, mauder; whisper; mince, lisp; jabber, gibber; sputter, splutter; muffle, mump; drawl, mouth; croak; speak thick, speak through the nose; snuffle, clip one's words; murder the language, murder the King's English, murder the Queen's English; mispronounce, missay.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Gibber

English words defined with "gibber": Gibbered, Gibbering. (references)

Play	Caption
	Gobble; cluck; gibber.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Gibber" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Gibber" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	87.5%	7	133,076
Lexical Verb (base form)	12.5%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	8	N/A

Language		Translations for "gibber"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		llomotitje (badinage, cackle, chitchat, clack, flubdub, lip-labor, lip-labour, mag, prate, tattle, wag, wish-wash), dërdëllitje (chatter, gibberish, giber, prate, prattle, talk shop, verbiage, yak, yapping), dërdëllit (babble, chatter, clack, gab, harp on, jabber, prattle, yap), dërdëllisje (chatter, gibberish, giber, prate, prattle, talk shop, verbiage, yak, yapping), dërdëllis (babble, chatter, clack, gab, harp on, harp on the same string, jabber, prattle, yap). (various references)

Arabic		‏هذر (chatter, gabble, garrulity, logorrhea, loquacity, palaver, patter, prate, prolixity, twaddle, twitter), ‏تمتم (babble, mumble, mutter, stammer, stutter, stutter out), ‏تلعثم (falter, fumble, halt, hem, hum and haw, jerk, stammer, stumble, stutter, trip), ‏ثرثر (babble, blab, blabber, bluster, chatter, clack, clatter, crack, gabble, gas, give oneself airs, gossip, jabber, jangle, jaw, natter, palaver, patter, prate, prattle, quack, rap, rumble, shoot one's mouth off, smatter, talk, tattle, twaddle, twitter, yap), ‏بربر (jabber). (various references)

Bulgarian		говоря завалено, говоря бързо (gallop), нечленоразделни звуци. (various references)

Czech		drmolit (gabble, splatter, sputter). (various references)

Farsi		ورزدن (Prattle), تندوناشمرده سخن گفتن (Chatter), سخن تندوناشمرده , دست وپاشکسته حرف زدن . (various references)

French		gibbosité (gibbosity), blaguer, bavarder (give oneself airs), baragouiner, bégayer. (various references)

German		Gibbus (gibbosity, gibbus), Gibber, schnattern (cackle, chatter, gabble, gaggle, natter, quack, to cackle, to chatter, to gabble, to gaggle, yackety-yak, yak), Höcker (bump, flat, hump, humps, hunch, knob), Buckel (back, boss, bulge, bump, hillock, hummock, hump, humpback, hunch, hunchback, hunchbacks, projection, stoop), brabbeln (babble, babble out, gabble, mumble, mutter). (various references)

Greek		κύφωσις (gibbosity, gibbus), κυφοσκολίωσις (kyphoscoliosis), βγάζω αναρθρέσ κραυγέσ, χλευαστήσ (giber, jeerer, railler, scoffer, sneerer), φλυαρώ (babble, blabber, chatter, gab, gabble, gossip, jabber, palaver, prate, rattle away, tattle, tittle tattle, twaddle, waffle, yammer, yap, yatter), ακατάληπτη ομιλία, ομιλώ ταχέωσ. (various references)

Hungarian		szikla (cliff, crag, rock). (various references)

Indonesian		celoteh (empty talk). (various references)

Italian		parole confuse, farfugliare (babble, gabble, mumble, murmur, slur, splutter, sputter, to rap, to riff), borbottio (gabble, gibberish, mumble, mutter, rumble), borbottare (gabble, grouse, grumble, grunt, hum, jabber, moan, mumble, mutter, to mutter). (various references)

Manx		cabbarey (chatterbox, gibbering). (various references)

Pig Latin		ibbergay

Portuguese		gritos (shouting), sons inarticulados (gibbet), enforcar (Gibbon, halting, hang, hang around), algaraviar, algaravia (arabic, broken language). (various references)

Romanian		vorbi repede şi neclar, trãncãni (Bab, babble, cackle, clack, clash, clatter, cosher, gab, gossip, jabber, jangle, Maunder, natter, palaver, prate, prattle, rattle, talk, tattle, yap), trãncãnealã (babble, chit chat, clack, clatter, drivel, flippancy, rattle, rigmarole, tattle, yap), bolborosi (babble, bubble, falter out, gabble, gobble, haw, mutter, sputter, stammer), bolborosealã (babble, gibberish, gobbledygook, mutter). (various references)

Russian		невнятная речь (gibberish, splutter), быстрая невнятная речь, бормотать (babble, burble, gabble, jabber, lip, mumble, murmur, mutter, muttered, speak in one's beard). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		trtljati, porilac, frfljati, brbljanje (babblement, blabber, blather, gab, jive, prattle, twaddle). (various references)

Spanish		hablar de una manera ininteligible, hablar atropelladamente (gabble, gibe, jabber, jibe), farfullar (babble, botch, jabber, mutter, patter, splutter), charlar con (clack, let out, patter, rap, talk with, tattle). (various references)

Swedish		snattra (chatter, gabble, gaggle, honk, jabber, jibber, natter, quack), prata (chat, chatter, clatter, gab, gabble, gossip, prate, talk). (various references)

Thai		พู�"ไม่รู้เรื่อง. (various references)

Turkish		maymun gibi sesler çıkarmak, hızlı ve anlaşılmaz konuşmak. (various references)

Ukranian		торохтіти (clabber), торохтіння (chirr, flapdoodle), швидка мова, говорити швидко (jabber). (various references)

Vietnamese		tiếng nói lắp bắp. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "gibber": gibbered, gibberellin, gibberellins, gibbering, gibberish, gibberishes, gibbers. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Gibber" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gabba, Gaber, Gabre, gauber, Gawber, gebder, geber, gebur, Geisberg, gelber, gibar, gibb, Gibbe, Gibbie, gibbler, gibert, gibey, gibier, Gibor, gibre, Gisburn, gobber, gubber, guber, guibba, Guiburn, Ogyebre, ribber. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-b-e-g-i-r"
	-1 letter: bribe, giber.
	-2 letters: berg, bier, brie, brig, gibe.
	-3 letters: beg, bib, big, ebb, erg, gib, gie, ire, reb, reg, rei, rib, rig.
	-4 letters: be, bi, er, re.
	Words containing the letters "b-b-e-g-i-r"
	+1 letter: gabbier, gibbers, glibber, gribble.
	+2 letters: cribbage, gibbered, globbier, grabbier, gribbles, grubbier.
	+3 letters: barbering, cribbages, gibbering, gibberish, grabbiest, grubbiest, jabbering, rabbeting, redubbing, rehabbing, rubbering, yabbering.
	+4 letters: barbecuing, barbequing, belaboring, blabbering, blubbering, bridgeable, clabbering, clobbering, grubbiness, prefabbing, slabbering, slobbering, slubbering.
	+5 letters: bearbaiting, belabouring, browbeating, firebombing, gibberellin, gibberishes, grandbabies, overdubbing, reabsorbing, rubberizing, submergible.
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