gibber

Uncertain; usually regarded as a back-formation from gibberish (see gibberish for more).

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɪbə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -ɪbə(ɹ)

gibber (countable and uncountable, plural gibbers)

1. Gibberish, unintelligible speech.

gibber (third-person singular simple present gibbers, present participle gibbering, simple past and past participle gibbered)

1. To jabber, talk rapidly and unintelligibly or incoherently.

• See also Thesaurus:chatter

From Dharug giba.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪbə/

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gibber (plural gibbers)

1. (Australia) A stone or rock, of chalcedony or similar mineral, found strewn over arid regions of inland Australia; a gibber stone.
2. (Australia, colloquial) Any small rock or stone, especially one used for throwing.
   • 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 90:

     “Well, all I can say is that if yer don't take yer dial outer the road I'll bloomin' well take an' bounce a gibber off yer crust.”

3. (Australia, obsolete) A large boulder or rocky outcrop; also, an overhanging rock formation.

• gibberbird
• gibber plain
• gibber stone

• reg, desert pavement

From gib +‎ -er.

gibber (plural gibbers)

1. A balky horse.
   • 1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse

     A hasty and passionate breaker will often make a really goodtempered young horse an inveterate gibber

“gibber”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From Proto-Italic *gīfri- (“hump”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *geybʰ- (“bowed, curved, crooked, skew”), and cognate with Lithuanian gei̇̃bti (“to decline, become weak”), Norwegian Bokmål keive (“the left hand”).

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gibber (feminine gibbera, neuter gibberum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. humpbacked, hunchbacked

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

gibber m (genitive gibberis); third declension

1. a hump, hunch on the back

Third-declension noun.

• (hump, hunch): gibbus

• gibberōsus

• gibbus

• “gibber”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gibber in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.