gibber
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Some of them may gibber at you, particularly if they're coming up.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2012
"I like your watch," he says while I gibber into his big, beautiful, travel-befuddled face.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 18, 2010
And the ocean turned out to gibber rather than murmur.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 25, 2010
At night, rats squeak and gibber around the bases of the monuments.
From Time Magazine Archive
For a moment she stared incredulous, as if he had begun to gibber in an unknown tongue-"Stannis and Renly are fighting each other!"
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Today, as Amanda in Private Lives, she whines, gibbers and snorts with all the grace of an untutored Eliza Doolittle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Miss STELLA, what does it mean when it gibbers like that?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 10, 1892 by Various
There is something in the notion, for it was a risky trip, And a spectre is a nuisance when he gibbers on board ship.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 1, 1890 by Various
He never came back, and I often wonder if he is dead, or if he still gibbers about his millions in some asylum for the insane.
From The Road by Jack London
Two men in each gang are "splitters"; two "gibbers."
From American Merchant Ships and Sailors by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot
In Puritan poems, the forest gibbered and howled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2016
Very quickly, soldiers began emerging with bizarre symptoms; they shuddered and gibbered or became unable to speak at all.
From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2016
And sometimes I have to remind myself that in addition to being Terry Gilliam the great director, Terry Gilliam the visionary, this is also Cardinal Fang, the one who gibbered about the Spanish Inquisition.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2014
Newman complained during his life time of the phantoms that "gibbered" instead of the real him.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2010
He growled and gibbered at them like a witch hare and those nearest to him fell back in fear.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
Wodehouse never exhausted the counterpoint between Bertie’s slangy gibbering and half-remembered literary allusions with Jeeves’ carefully modulated responses: “Very well, Jeeves, you agree with me that the situation is a lulu?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2025
The music – arcing, frantic atonal guitar and gibbering backing vocals – sounds deranged; Bowie sings like a man on the brink of a nervous breakdown.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2020
But one glance at Gammell’s hollow-eyed ghouls, shrieking skeletal brides, and gibbering specters told any kid that here was something that danced right on the edge of taboo.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2019
Hermes leads them, gibbering like bats, past various underworld landmarks, the white rock of Leukas, etc., and on their way they pass the δῆμον ὀνείρων, which Homer leaves undescribed and unexplained.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 17, 2018
“Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron.”
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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