gibe
noun
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L16825 on Wikidata ↗verb
- utter mocking or scoffing words, jeer, taunt
Wiktionary
name
- Abbreviation of Gibraltarian English.
noun
- Alternative spelling of gybe.
- Alternative spelling of jibe (“facetious or insulting remark”).
“Alas poore Yoricke, […] where be your gibes now? your gamboles? your ſongs? your flaſhes of merriment, that were wont to ſet the table on a roare, not one now to mocke your owne grinning, quite chopfalne.”
“[George] Carlin's opening-night monologue included some blunt gibes at organized religion which would almost certainly have been cut out of any other network show.”
verb
- Alternative spelling of gybe.
- Alternative spelling of jibe.
“Why thats the way to choake a gibing ſpirrit, / Whoſe influence is begot of that looſe grace, / Which ſhallow laughing hearers giue to fooles, […]”
“[Y]ou / Did pocket vp my Letters: and with taunts / Did gibe my Miſive out of audience.”