gibe

Alternative forms

• gybe
• jibe

Etymology

Compare Old Norse geipa (“to talk nonsense”).

Noun

gibe (plural gibes)

1. A facetious or insulting remark; a jeer or taunt.
   • 1603, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 5, scene 1:

     Hamlet: Alas, poor Yorick! . . . Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?

Verb

gibe (third-person singular simple present gibes, present participle gibing, simple past and past participle gibed)

1. (intransitive) To perform a jibe (2, 3).
2. (intransitive) To agree.

   That explanation doesn't gibe with the facts.

3. (transitive) To cause to execute a gibe (2, 3).
4. (transitive, intransitive) To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride; to mock.
   • Jonathan Swift

     Draw the beasts as I describe them, / From their features, while I gibe them.

   • Jonathan Swift

     Fleer and gibe, and laugh and flout.

Anagrams

• Geib, IBGE

Verb

gibe

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of gibar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of gibar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of gibar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of gibar.