gibe

noun 2verb 2name 1

Definitions

noun

1

Alternative spelling of gybe.

2

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

1

Alternative spelling of gybe.

2

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.

name

1

Abbreviation of Gibraltarian English.

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