gibber

/'dʤibə/

Thân thiện

The baby began to gibber happily in his high chair.

Definition

1. Verb:

   • To speak rapidly, unintelligibly, or inarticulately, often in a way that sounds like nonsense.
   • To chatter or babble about unimportant matters in a fast, continuous, and often foolish manner.

2. Noun:

   • Unintelligible or meaningless speech; rapid, foolish chatter.

Examples of Usage

• Verb:
  • The toddler began to gibber excitedly, but no one could understand what he wanted.
  • Frightened by the storm, the man started to gibber incoherently.
• Noun:
  • His explanation was nothing but gibber, a stream of words that made no sense.
  • We ignored the political gibber on the talk show.

Advanced Usage

• "to gibber away": To talk incessantly and unintelligibly.
  • The old radio just gibbered away, picking up static and broken signals.
• Used to describe the chattering sounds made by monkeys or apes.
  • The monkeys gibbered loudly in the treetops.

Variants and Related Words

• Gibberish (noun): Meaningless speech or writing; nonsense.
  • The document was filled with technical gibberish I couldn't decipher.
• Gibberer (noun): A person who gibbers.

Synonyms

• Babble: To talk rapidly and continuously in a foolish, excited, or incomprehensible way.
• Prate: To talk foolishly or at tedious length about something.
• Jabber: To talk rapidly and excitedly but with little sense.
• Blather: To talk long-windedly without making much sense.
• Chatter: To talk rapidly about trivial matters.

Related Phrasal Verbs/Constructions

• Gibber with fear/terror: To speak incoherently as a result of extreme fear.
  • The witness gibbered with terror when recounting the event.

Related Idioms

• Talk gibberish: To speak in a completely unintelligible or nonsensical manner.
  • After the accident, he was talking gibberish for a few minutes.

Học thuật

Noun

1. unintelligible talking

Verb

1. chatter inarticulately; of monkeys
2. speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

Từ đồng nghĩa

• gibberish