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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
gibber
verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He was gibbering with rage.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ More voices began to call and gibber from other houses, and everywhere he saw signs that the familiar world was disintegrating.
▪ Something else Hugh saw nearly made him gibber.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
gibber

gibber \gib"ber\ (g[i^]b"b[~e]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p. gibbered (g[i^]b"b[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. gibbering.] [Akin to jabber, and gabble.] To speak rapidly and inarticulately.
--Shak.

Syn: jabber.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
gibber

c.1600, probably a back-formation from gibberish. Related: Gibbered; gibbering.

Wiktionary
gibber

Etymology 1 n. gibberish, unintelligible speech. vb. To jabber, talk rapidly and unintelligible or incoherently. Etymology 2

n. A boulder, a stone. Etymology 3

n. A balky horse.

WordNet
gibber
  1. n. unintelligible talking [syn: gibberish]

  2. v. speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly [syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, tattle, blabber, gabble]

  3. chatter inarticulately; of monkeys

Usage examples of "gibber".

I overcame the worst that the ancient, amorphous, deathless, eldritch, gibbering gods of Elsewhere and Elsewhen threw at me.

Somewhere deep inside me the real Kat Crosse was gibbering with fear, but the primitive will to survive that exists in everyone had switched me onto fashionista autopilot.

That object was my uncle--the venerable Elihu Whipple--who with blackening and decaying features leered and gibbered at me, and reached out drip ping claws to rend me in the fury which this horror had brought.

There was a nightmare flight through a vast cobwebbed nave whose ghostly arches readied up to realms of leering shadow, a sightless scramble through a littered basement, a climb to regions of air and street lights outside, and a mad racing down a spectral hill of gibbering gables, across a grim, silent city of tall black towers, and up the steep eastward precipice to his own ancient door.

Jilba, one of the men, stood up to try out his new spear when he noticed a movement through the mulga trees over the other side of the gibber plains.

His imagination was gibbering with images of the pursuit Sam and Octal were putting together behind him.

We can play, and spout, and polemicize, and gibber, and even make funny faces if we want to.

Another squeal from behind him and Sheelah was gibbering in a high, frightened voice.

Their loud whoops and immense bounds from tree to tree when excited, or the flashing of their white teeth as they gibber at their lurking foe, have often told the shikari of the whereabouts of the object of his search.

While the pack of wolf-monkeys howled and gibbered toward Fulla, Skellum sent a quartet of man-sized millipedes scurrying after them.

For several moments Master and ushabti gibbered together, then the Master regained control of himself and the statue fell silent.

There were sounds of battering upon wood, loud growls and roars, mingled with weird shrieks and screams and the strange, uncanny gibbering of brainless things.

And Hall, usually so merry, could outfoot them all when he once got started on the cosmic pathos of religion and the gibbering anthropomorphisms of those who loved not to die.

Idiots, with blear eyes and protending underlips, gibbered and whined.

She hears people gibbering about Osama and al-Qaeda and she tries to think of the awful fireball approaching and the panic and the noise and the pyrolytic reek of burning aviation fuel and those microseconds of blind terror and all she can concentrate on is the window repairman with his bag of tools and triplicate dockets to sign.