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单词 gibber
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gibbern.1

Brit. /ˈdʒɪbə/, /ˈɡɪbə/, U.S. /ˈdʒɪbər/
Etymology: < gibber v.1
Rapid and inarticulate utterance.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [noun]
jargon1340
gibberishc1557
fustiana1593
hibber-gibber1593
rabble?1593
gabbling1599
rantum-scantum1599
ribble-rabble1601
gabble1602
High Dutch1602
Greek1603
baragouin1614
galimatias1653
riddle-me-ree1678
clink-clank1679
Hebrew1705
alieniloquy1727
jabber1735
mumbo-jumbo1738
gibbering1786
rigmarole1809
gibber1832
rigmarolery1833
Babelism1834
jargoning1837
barrikin1851
abracadabra1867
double Dutch1876
jabberwock1902
jabberwocky1908
jibber-jabber1922
mumbo-jumbery1923
mumbo1931
double-talk1938
garbology1944
1832 J. P. Kennedy Swallow Barn (1860) iii. 38 The gibber of ducks and chickens and turkeys.
1835 R. Browning Paracelsus ii. 43 The blank space 'twixt an ideot's gibber And a mad lover's ditty.
1859 C. Kingsley Plays & Puritans in Misc. II. 131 He has none of the obscene gibber of the ape.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

gibbern.2

/ˈɡɪbə/
Etymology: < Latin gibber.
(See quots.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > swelling > [noun] > a swelling or protuberance
ampereOE
kernelc1000
wenc1000
knot?c1225
swella1250
bulchc1300
bunchc1325
bolninga1340
botcha1387
bouge1398
nodusa1400
oedemaa1400
wax-kernel14..
knobc1405
nodule?a1425
more?c1425
bunnyc1440
papa1450
knurc1460
waxing kernel?c1460
lump?a1500
waxen-kernel1500
bump1533
puff1538
tumour?1541
swelling1542
elevation1543
enlarging1562
knub1563
pimple1582
ganglion1583
button1584
phyma1585
emphysema?1587
flesh-pimple1587
oedem?a1591
burgeon1597
wartle1598
hurtle1599
pough1601
wart1603
extumescence1611
hulch1611
peppernel1613
affusion1615
extumescency1684
jog1715
knibloch1780
tumefaction1802
hunch1803
income1808
intumescence1822
gibber1853
tumescence1859
whetstone1886
tumidity1897
Osler's node1920
1853 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 9) Gibber, hump.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. Gibber, a pouch-like enlargement of the base of a calyx, corolla, etc.
1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. 413/1 Gibbous..swelling out on one side into a gibber or gibberosity.
1885 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Gibber, a hump, a hunch.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

gibbern.3

Brit. /ˈɡɪbə/, U.S. /ˈɡɪbər/, Australian English /ˈɡɪbə/
Forms: Also 1800s gibba, ghibber.
Etymology: < Dharuk (Sydney region) giba.
Australian.
A large stone; a boulder.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > [noun] > a rock > boulder
stonerockeOE
rochec1300
rocka1413
calionc1459
outlier1610
boother1680
tumbler1789
boulder1815
lost stone1819
erratic blocka1828
erratic blocka1828
lost rock1831
gibber1834
tumbling stone1857
foundling-stone1892
1834 L. E. Threlkeld Austral. Gram. p. xi Barbarisms..Gibber, a stone.
1847 A. Harris Settlers & Convicts ix. 159 He did not object to stow himself by the fire-side of any house he might be near, or under the ‘gibbers’ (over~hanging rocks) of the river.
1888 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms I. vi. 75 There was a kind of gully that came in, something like the one we came in by, but rougher, and full of gibbers.
1896 B. Spencer in Rep. Horn Exped. i. 11 Our course lay across..upland plains covered with ‘gibbers’.

Compounds

C1. attributive and in other combinations.
gibber country n.
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1894 B. Spencer in Argus (Melbourne) 1 Sept. 4/2 in E. E. Morris Austral Eng. (1898) Our track led across what is called the gibber country.
gibber-field n.
ΚΠ
1896 B. Spencer in Rep. Horn Exped. i. 27 Even the Stony gibber-field becomes green with herbage.
gibber-plain n.
ΚΠ
1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 27 Sept. 20/4 A well-found homestead..set in a howling wilderness of bare gibber plain.
1953 Sci. News 27 9 In cases where the initial rock surface is harder..stone-desert surfaces are commonly formed. These are known as hamada in Africa, gobi in Mongolia, and gibber-plains in Australia.
C2.
gibber-gunyah n. an Australian Aboriginal cave-dwelling.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > other types of dwelling > [noun] > cave or underground dwelling
earth houseeOE
cavec1220
bikea1522
mattamore1695
subterranean1714
subterrane1759
yurt1780
weem1792
subterrene1793
ice cave1810
gibber-gunyah1847
dugout1855
fogou1864
abri1887
pit house1907
the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hole or pit > [noun] > cave > dwelling
weem1792
gibber-gunyah1847
1847 A. Harris Settlers & Convicts xi. 211 I coincided in his opinion that it would be best for us to camp for the night in one of the ghibber~gunyahs. These are the hollows under overhanging rocks.
1863 tr. in R. W. Vanderkiste Lost—but not for Ever 210 Our home is the gibber-gunyah.
1891 R. Etheridge Rec. Austral. Mus. I. viii. 171 Notes on ‘Rock Shelters’ or ‘Gibba-gunyahs’ at Deewhy Lagoon.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

gibberv.1

Brit. /ˈdʒɪbə/, /ˈɡɪbə/, U.S. /ˈdʒɪbər/
Forms: Also rarely jibber.
Etymology: Onomatopoeic; compare gabber v., jabber v.Probably /ˈdʒɪbə(r)/ and /ˈɡɪbə(r)/ are originally independent words of parallel formation, not merely divergent interpretations of the written form.
intransitive. To speak rapidly and inarticulately; to chatter, talk nonsense. Said also of an ape.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > talk gibberish [verb (intransitive)]
rabblea1400
javerc1440
jabber1499
jabble1570
jargon1570
gabble1574
gibberish1577
gibber1604
cant1728
jibber1824
rigmarole1831
to talk through (the back of) one's neck1899
garble1913
jibber-jabber1922
jabberwock1959
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. i. 106 + 9 The graues stood tennatlesse, and the sheeted dead Did squeake and gibber in the Roman streets.
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. xxiv. 11 The ghosts Troop it downward, gibbering all the dreary way.
1833 H. Martineau Cinnamon & Pearls iii. 56 Monkeys..hung by one arm from the boughs overhead, gibbering and chattering.
a1845 T. Hood Forge ii. xix Meanwhile the demons, filthy and foul, Are not contented to jibber and howl.
1857–8 E. H. Sears Athanasia 23 Not a spectre can rise and gibber.
1871 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera (1896) I. x. 196 Those who work and do not gibber.
1877 V. L. Cameron Across Afr. (1885) xv. 209 They chattered and gibbered at the strange sight of a boat.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

gibberv.2

Origin: Of unknown origin.
Etymology: Origin unknown.
Obsolete. rare.
ΚΠ
1602 W. S. True Chron. Hist. Ld. Cromwell sig. Ev I faith ile gibber a ioynte, but ile tell him his owne.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

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ˈgibber
ˈgibber n. one who disembowels fish.
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