giber

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English

Etymology

From gibe +‎ -er.

Noun

giber (plural gibers)

  1. One who utters gibes.
    • c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, act 2, scene 1, lines 76–78:
      Come, come, you are well understood to be a perfecter / giber for the table than a necessary bencher in the / Capitol.
    • 1611, Ben[jamin] Jonson, Catiline His Conspiracy, London: [William Stansby?] for Walter Burre, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
      Come Sempronia , leave him;
      He is a giber; and our present business
      Is of more serious consequence
    • 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author’s Oeconomy and Happy Life among the Houyhnhnms. ”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. , volume II, London: Benj Motte, , →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms), page 301:
      […] here were no Gibers, Cenſurers, Backbiters, Pick-pockets, Highwaymen, Houſebreakers, Attorneys, Bawds, Buffoons, Gameſters, Politicians, Wits, ſplenetick tedious Talkers, Controvertiſts, Raviſhers, Murderers, Robbers, Virtuoſo's; […]
    • 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XI, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 108:
      Aloof you stand and hear the railer's gibe / While rain their shafts on me the giber-band.

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