as in to babble
to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly
stop gibbering, and pull yourself together!
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as in babble
unintelligible or meaningless talk
all I could get from her gibber was that something had exploded
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Recent Examples of gibber
Dennis Harvey, Variety, 18 Sep. 2023
For a while, police interest bent toward a Phud who had been warned he might be eliminated from the program, who had seemed almost exultant about the fire and gibbered gleefully about the media spotlight.
—New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018
Or is Tucker Carlson the exact opposite of a journalist and his broadcast the Platonic ideal of gibbering insanity?
—Amanda Arnold, The Cut, 9 Apr. 2018
In issue two, Chang wanders around gibbering like a raw-meat lunatic while his skin tries to escape the little girl, who's keeping it as a pet.
—Maurice Martin, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2002
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But when the disheveled, withdrawn ex-friend shows up in the locker room gibbering about an evil spirit, Sam is mortified, impulsively knocking to the ground the grungy-looking Mason jar that Tamira has been carrying around.
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Verb
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Encouraged to see Jones sorta respond, Mackie kept babbling on and on and on about his dad, unaware that everyone else in the room was cringing.—
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Ebony’s daughter could babble, her words carried the rhythms of more than one language.—
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While chatting with Fallon, Sink shared a few thoughts on the explosive finale of Stranger Things—some of which proved to be a little controversial.—
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About halfway through, a few students finished and started chatting.—
Noun
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Some children clustered there to jabber and run madly about, while others just wanted attention and knew how to get it.—
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And given that these are not professional actors, or even (in most cases) people who aspire to be, LaBeouf’s words to them, full of deadly serious jabber about empathy and ego, are pumped up with an intensity that feels overdone and inappropriate.—
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Now Carmelo can be seen at every Syracuse game, chattering constantly to Kiyan and his teammates.—
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Insects chatter in the trees in waves and pulses in the heat.—
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That rule is nonsense — especially with two applicants who pretty clearly spend most of their time in Tallahassee, and two who work in Lakeland.—
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But the residency rule is nonsense.—
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Duff wrote alongside a drooling-face emoji.—
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Line play enthusiasts would drool for 60 minutes.—
Noun
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Trump prattles on about the economy while the actors freeze behind him in their ancient Galilee garb.—
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She was getting winded on our walk, and her prattle was broken up by heavy breaths.—
Verb
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Perennially delighted and deeply uncool, Tascioni gabbles about the wonders of the city while her interlocutors roll their eyes at her lack of sophistication and taste.—
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“Gibber.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gibber. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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