gibber
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Some of them may gibber at you, particularly if they're coming up.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2012
It's one of the novel's funniest scenes: the men gibber through a jungle – lost in space and out of their Edwardian gourds.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 11, 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
We were bunched beside the doors, trying not to gibber.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
Today, as Amanda in Private Lives, she whines, gibbers and snorts with all the grace of an untutored Eliza Doolittle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Or are we to assume that he gibbers?
From Pot-Boilers by Clive Bell
He pursues after the fleeing form that seems so fair, and when he reaches her side, and lifts her veil, eager to embrace the tempter, a hideous skeleton grins and gibbers at him.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms by Alexander Maclaren
We'd started out with gibbers in our clobber and our 'ats.
From 'Hello, Soldier!' Khaki Verse by Edward Dyson
Miss STELLA, what does it mean when it gibbers like that?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 10, 1892 by Various
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
There was a noise then, from the desert, from far away, a distant howl, and the ghouls gibbered and they huddled closer to the flames.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
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
Another time, I had to rescue the late, great NME writer Steven Wells from the site, as he started gibbering like a hallucinating Vietnam war veteran.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 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
They panted up, white-faced, and began gibbering out their tale of terror.
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
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