单词 | giber |
释义 | giberjibern. One who gibes; one who utters gibes and taunts. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > jeering, taunting, or scoffing > [noun] > one who scoffer1470 taunter1552 jeerer1553 giber1563 girder1584 fleerera1627 barracker1889 signifier1956 1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Inform. Cert. Places Script. ii, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 379 Provoke him not to pour out his wrath now upon you, as he did then upon those gibers and mockers. 1612 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don-Quixote: Pt. 1 i. iii. 16 The Oast, who, as we noted before, was a great giber. a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. i. 80 You are well vnderstood to bee a perfecter gyber for the Table, then a necessary Bencher in the Capitoll. View more context for this quotation a1745 J. Swift Char. Sir R. Walpole in Lett. C'tess Suffolk (1824) II. 32 Of virtue and worth by profession a giber; Of juries and senates the bully and briber. 1881 Daily News 8 Aug. 5/1 The most relentless jiber at the amusements of Congresses will hardly refuse to admit that [etc.]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1563 |
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