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gibbering

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.

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gibbering

vb. (present participle of gibber English)

Usage examples of "gibbering".

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

It produced a vast amount of solemn pornography, facetious pornography, sadistic incitement, re-sexualized religiosity and verbal gibbering in which the rich effectiveness of obscene words was abundantly exploited.

Perhaps the alien invaders could transform their persons into a semblance of those they ambushed, and the entity who appeared to be Sergeant Aarhus was actually a loathsome jelly-thing waiting for a chance to implant me with its gibbering spawn.

GMT Operations Center Bouddica Alpha Heinrich Adler looked left and right, panic gibbering like a looming black beast somewhere in the back of his mind.

Father Brindisi raised a cross above his head, gibbering away in the name of God.

Every man of them as he ran from his own warm house on his way to the forge of Narl had seen lights leaping, or heard voices gibbering, which were of no Christom land.

All unnoticed by us De Ganache had been crouching in the shadow of the vaulted passage watching the struggle and gibbering to himself--the only one of the mob who had dared to venture so far.

I was gibbering by the door but Oban was affable and relaxed, sitting down opposite Will as if they were having a drink together.