jibe

A facetious or insulting remark; a jeer, a taunt.

He flung subtle jibes at her until she couldn’t bear to work with him any longer.

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.

To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride, to mock, to taunt.

[Y]ou / Did pocket vp my Letters: and with taunts / Did gibe my Miſive out of audience.

We could hardly speak before for fear of our Taskmasters; but we dare now Nose those Villains that used to gibe us.

To say in a mocking or taunting manner.

Scarlett felt her heart begin its mad racing again and she clutched her hand against it unconsciously, as if she would squeeze it into submission. "Eavesdroppers often hear highly instructive things," jibed a memory.

To make a mocking remark or remarks; to jeer.

Why thats the way to choake a gibing ſpirrit, / Whoſe influence is begot of that looſe grace, / Which ſhallow laughing hearers giue to fooles, […]

This ſet the old Gentlevvoman a Laughing at me, as you may be ſure it vvould: VVell, Madam, Forſooth, ſays ſhe, Gibing at me, you vvould be a Gentlevvoman, and hovv vvill you come to be a Gentlevvoman? VVhat vvill you do it by your Fingers Ends?

To accord or agree.

That explanation doesn’t jibe with the facts.

[T]here is something wrong with your figures. They do not jibe with experience. They do not jibe with prices. They do not jibe with what we know.