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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

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

That sort of vitriol might have once been dismissed as the vile but essentially harmless gibbering of a clutch of lost boys.

From Slate Aug. 21, 2018

The men who leer after Candy are truly fatuous primates, fit for little but gibbering at the moon.

From New York Times Jul. 16, 2018

The sounds were muffled, but continued: the haunted wind lamenting, the house shuddering, an increasing assortment of shrieks, screams, howls, and wild bursts of gibbering laughter.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull




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