单词 | gibber |
释义 | gibbern.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 (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 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. ΚΠ 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 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 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). > as lemmasˈgibber ˈgibber n. one who disembowels fish. < as lemmas |
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