- present participle of gibber.
gibbering
Example Sentences
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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
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
You need confidence to celebrate yourself so explicitly, and the Oscars are a gibbering mess.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 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
He has puzzled the greatest medical minds, and sent many of them gibbering to their own hospitals.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
