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▪ I. gibe, jibe, n.1|dʒaɪb|
Also 6–9 gybe, 6 jybe, 6– gibe.
[f. the vb.]
A scoffing or sneering speech; a taunt, flout, or jeer.
1573G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 8 Besides sum other trim iests and iybes of his. 1602Shakes. Ham. v. i. 209 Alas poore Yorick..Where be your Jibes now? 1642Milton Apol. Smect. Wks. (1847) 76/2 To be girded with frumps and curtall gibes. 1712Steele Spect. No. 300 ⁋1 Their aversion would be too strong for little Gibes every moment. 1757Dyer Fleece (1807) 65 They..cast about their gibes. 1812Byron Ch. Har. i. lxix, Provoking envious gibe from each pedestrian churl. 1835Marryat Jac. Faithf. iv, Many were the bitter gibes and inuendoes which I was obliged to hear. 1874Disraeli Sp. 5 Aug. in Hansard's Debates CCXXI. 1358 He is a great master of gibes, and flouts, and jeers. 1885Black White Heather i, The jibes that seemed to form their farewells for the night.
▪ II. † gibe, n.2 Obs.—1
[shortened form of gibbet.]
A gibbet.
1590T. Fenne Frutes, Hecuba's Mishaps D d b, They his body ript, And naked on a gibe they hang for Troyans there to see.
▪ III. gibe, jibe, v.|dʒaɪb|
Also 6 jybe, 6–9 gybe, (7 ghybe).
[Of obscure origin: perh. ad. OF. giber, explained by Godef. (who refers to mod. dial. giber to kick) as meaning to shake, trans. and intr. (‘secouer, s'agiter’), but in the examples app. meaning ‘to handle roughly in sport’, ‘to use horseplay’. Cf. jib v.]
1. intr. To speak sneeringly; to utter taunts; to jeer, flout, scoff. Const. at, † with. Also dial. to scold.
1567Turbervile Epit., etc. 68 Speake fayre, and make the weather cleere To him that gybes with thee. a1592Greene Alphonsus iii. Wks. 1831 II. 33 You shall perceive Medea did not gibe. a1639W. Whately Prototypes i. vi. (1640) 72 Wicked wittes will never cease gybing at those good things that crosse their sense and reason. 1674–91Ray N.C. Words (E.D.S.), Gibe, Ghybe, to scold. 1722De Foe Moll Flanders (1840) 5 Well, madam, forsooth, says she, gibing at me; you would be a gentle⁓woman. 1821Galt Ann. Parish xxxv. (1895) 133 The rising generation were taught to jibe at its [the Christian religion's] holiest ordinances [etc.]. 1851Thackeray Eng. Hum. vi. (1876) 347 The old fiddler gibed at him for his ugliness. 1874L. Stephen Hours in Library (1892) I. ii. 58 Richardson..is always gibing at Fielding.
2. trans. To address with scoffs and sneers; to flout, taunt.
1582T. Watson Centurie of Loue lxvii. in Poems (Arb.) 103 When other whiles he passeth Lemnos Ile, Vnhappy boy he gybes the Clubfoote Smith. 1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. ii. ii. 74 You..with taunts Did gibe my Misiue out of audience. 1666Wood Life (O.H.S.) II. 90 The deane..would be alwaie gibing him at meales. 1733Swift Legion Club Wks. 1755 IV. i. 208 Draw the beasts as I describe them From their features, while I gibe them. 1825C. M. Westmacott Eng. Spy I. 273 Gibe him for a dolt. 1852Hawthorne Blithedale Rom. viii. (1883) 394 Zenobia soon saw the truth, and gibed me about it, one day. 1893Jessopp Stud. by Recluse i. 33 Evil demons might chatter and gibe and twit him at his prayers.
▪ IV. gibe
var. jibe U.S., to chime in (with). |