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#* {{RQ:Swift Gulliver|part=IV|chapter=X|page=301|passage={{...}} 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; {{...}}}} |
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Revision as of 18:09, 29 August 2023
English
Etymology
Noun
giber (plural gibers)
- 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
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- 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.
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:joker