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jibe

noun
/d͡ʒaɪb/US

Etymology

Uncertain; possibly from Old French giber (“to engage in horseplay; to play roughly in sport”). Compare English jib (“usually of a horse: to stop and refuse to go forward”), Old Norse geipa (“to talk nonsense”). The noun is derived from the verb.

  1. derived from giber

Definitions

  1. A facetious or insulting remark

    A facetious or insulting remark; a jeer, a taunt.

    • He flung subtle jibes at her until she couldn’t bear to work with him any longer.
    • Alas poore Yoricke, […] where be your gibes now? your gamboles? your ſongs? your flaſhes of merriment, that were wont to ſet the table on a roare, not one now to mocke your owne grinning, quite chopfalne.
    • Come, come, we / All are Friends, nor have we Time for Jibe, / Or Anger now, but 'gainſt our common Foes, / The French and Scot; there let your Pray'rs, and Jeſts, / And Blows, be levell’d.

  2. To reproach with contemptuous words

    To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride, to mock, to taunt.

    • [Y]ou / Did pocket vp my Letters: and with taunts / Did gibe my Miſive out of audience.
    • We could hardly speak before for fear of our Taskmasters; but we dare now Nose those Villains that used to gibe us.
    • How I want thee, hum'rous Hogarth! / Thou, I hear, a pleaſant Rogue art; / […] / Draw the Beaſts as I deſcribe them, / From their Features, while I gibe them.

  3. To say in a mocking or taunting manner.

    • Scarlett felt her heart begin its mad racing again and she clutched her hand against it unconsciously, as if she would squeeze it into submission. "Eavesdroppers often hear highly instructive things," jibed a memory.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. To make a mocking remark or remarks

      To make a mocking remark or remarks; to jeer.

      • Why thats the way to choake a gibing ſpirrit, / Whoſe influence is begot of that looſe grace, / Which ſhallow laughing hearers giue to fooles, […]
      • Thus with talents well endu'd / To be ſcurrilous and rude; / When you pertly raiſe your ſnout, / Fleer and gibe, and laugh and flout; […]

    2. To accord or agree.

      • That explanation doesn’t jibe with the facts.
      • [T]here is something wrong with your figures. They do not jibe with experience. They do not jibe with prices. They do not jibe with what we know.
      • This did not jibe with the objectivist view that metaphor is of only peripheral interest in an account of meaning and truth and that it plays at best a marginal role in understanding.

    3. Alternative spelling of gybe.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA