gib

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Etymology 1

Unknown (14th century). Perhaps abbreviated from Gilbert, the name of the cat in the medieval fables of Reynard the Fox, Romaunt of the Rose, and so on.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɪb/

  • Audio (Southern England)

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• UK sometimes also IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɪb/

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• Rhymes: -ɪb

Noun

gib (plural gibs)

1. A castrated male cat or ferret.
2. A male cat; a tomcat.
3. A hooked prolongation on the lower jaw of a male salmon or trout.
4. The lower lip of a horse.

Derived terms

• gib-cat

Etymology 2

Unknown (late 18th century).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɪb/ or IPA^(key): /ɡɪb/ (both are common)

Noun

gib (plural gibs)

1. A strip, wedge, or bolt made from metal or wood and used for holding a machine part in place; usually with features (such as a taper and/or set screws) that allow for fine adjustment of the part's position.

Translations

Verb

gib (third-person singular simple present gibs, present participle gibbing, simple past and past participle gibbed)

1. To fasten in place with a gib.

Etymology 3

Shortened from giblet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɪb/
• Rhymes: -ɪb

Noun

gib (plural gibs)

1. (video games) Miscellaneous pieces of a fragged character, most often in first-person shooters.

Verb

gib (third-person singular simple present gibs, present participle gibbing, simple past and past participle gibbed)

1. (transitive, video games) To blast an enemy or opponent into gibs.

Etymology 4

From the trademark GIB, registered by Fletcher Building Holdings Limited, the major brand of plasterboard in New Zealand.

Pronunciation

• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /dʒɘb/
• Rhymes: -ɘb

Noun

gib (uncountable)

1. (New Zealand) plasterboard.

Verb

gib (third-person singular simple present gibs, present participle gibbing, simple past and past participle gibbed)

1. (New Zealand) To install plasterboard.
   • 2014 October 4, Chris Hutching, “An earthquake repair story from the south”, in NBR:

     As the wallpaper stripping progresses the damage to walls becomes more apparent. It may require more variation orders for gibbing of walls as well as ceilings.

Etymology 5

Verb

gib

1. Pronunciation spelling of give.
   • 1880, Albion W. Tourgee, “Red Wing”, in Bricks Without Straw, New York, N.Y.: Fords, Howard, & Hulbert; London: Sampson Low & Co.; Montreal, Que.: Dawson Bros., page 87:

     Only gib me some few shingles an’ a flo’, an’ dar yer hev jes ez good a church ez de ’postles ebber hed ter preach in.

   • 1896, Opie Read, chapter VIII, in The Jucklins, Chicago, Ill.: Laird & Lee, pages 105 and 107:

     I has gib you licker an’ I has gib you music, an’ wife, dar, is cookin’ supper fur you, an’ it ain’ no mo’ den reason dat I’d wanter know whut we gwine git fur it. […] “Yo’ supper is done an’ ef you’ll jest gib me room I’ll fix de table,” the woman remarked, taking the bread off the griddle.

   • 1902, John Kendrick Bangs, Bikey the Skicycle & Other Tales of Jimmieboy, New York, N.Y.: Riggs Publishing Company, page 181:

     De kindest heartedest little boy in de worl’ would forget to gib his cat its dinner if he had a new toy to play wid, or a new suit o’ party dress to put on to show his poppy when he come home.

   • 1938, Hervey Allen, Action at Aquila, New York, N.Y.: Farrar & Rinehart, page 98:

     Please, Mars’ Gineral, do gib me dime fer snack.

   • 1988, Lynda Barry, The Good Times Are Killing Me, published 2020, →ISBN:

     Don’t your mommy gib you bacoln?

   • 2002 July, Patricia Sprinkle, Who Invited the Dead Man?, Signet, →ISBN:

     “My daddy doesn’t gib me guns, ’cause he doesn’t like dem. But Pop will gib me one when I gets ten.”

   • 2007, Victoria Pade, A Family for the Holidays, Silhouette Books, →ISBN, page 12:

     “Maybe you could jus’ gib me one, then,” she suggested sweetly.

   • 2021 March, Srashti Behure, Unconditional: Pets Over Peeps, Spectrum of Thoughts (an affiliate of FanatiXx), →ISBN:

     Hooman you is nice, / You gib me bath so I no hab lice.

   • 2022 February 8, Sohini Sengupta, “Dogs react to human freezing their favourite toys. Watch hilarious video”, in Hindustan Times‎:

     “Gib us our toy bacc!” reads the caption accompanying this dog video [by @lifewithkleekai].

   • 2022 February 10, Steve Rouge, “The Cutest Puppies of the Day”, in Medium‎:

     “I be model for fotos, now you gib treats”

See also

• gnaB giB

Anagrams

• BIG, GBI, big

Afar

Etymology

From Arabic جَيْب (jayb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡib/,
• Hyphenation: gib

Noun

gib m (plural giibitté f or gibwá f)

1. pocket

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎, Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡiːp/ (chiefly in formal speech)
• IPA^(key): /ɡɪp/ (overall more common)

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• Rhymes: -iːp, -ɪp

Verb

gib

1. singular imperative of geben
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of geben

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

• gibaj

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʲip/

Verb

gib

1. second-person singular imperative of gibaś

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡip/
• Rhymes: -ip
• Syllabification: gib

Verb

gib

1. second-person singular imperative of gibać

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gybъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡîːb/

Noun

gȋb m (Cyrillic spelling ги̑б)

1. movement (of body or a body part)
2. fold
3. joint

Declension

References

• “gib” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Sumerian

Romanization

gib

1. Romanization of 𒄃 (gib)