Gibe

Alternative forms

• gybe
• jibe

Origin

Compare Old Norse geipa ("to talk nonsense").

Full definition of gibe

Noun

1. A facetious or insulting remark; a jeer or taunt.
• 1603, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act 5, sc. 1:Hamlet: Alas, poor Yorick! . . . Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?

Verb

1. (intransitive) To perform a jibe (2, 3).
2. (intransitive) To agree.That explanation doesn't gibe with the facts.
3. (transitive) To cause to execute a gibe (2, 3).
4. (ambitransitive) To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride; to mock.
• Jonathan SwiftDraw the beasts as I describe them,
  From their features, while I gibe them.
• Jonathan SwiftFleer and gibe, and laugh and flout.

Anagrams

• IBGE