dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/gib_MW.json

{
  "Gibeon":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      "city of ancient Palestine northwest of Jerusalem":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8gi-b\u0113-\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-140710",
    "type":[
      "geographical name",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "gib-cat":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": gib entry 1 sense 2":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-072720",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "gibber":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and often foolishly":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "What are they gibbering about now",
      "Calm down! You sound like a gibbering idiot!",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "For a while, police interest bent toward a Phud who had been warned he might be eliminated from the program, who had seemed almost exultant about the fire and gibbered gleefully about the media spotlight. \u2014 New York Times , 13 Apr. 2018",
      "Or is Tucker Carlson the exact opposite of a journalist and his broadcast the Platonic ideal of gibbering insanity",
      "Mr. Eno is well aware of such dangers, and of all the other gibbering clich\u00e9s people are reduced to when contemplating their ultimate ends. \u2014 Ben Brantley, New York Times , 27 Feb. 2017",
      "In issue two, Chang wanders around gibbering like a raw-meat lunatic while his skin tries to escape the little girl, who's keeping it as a pet. \u2014 Maurice Martin, WIRED , 1 Mar. 2002"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1604, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "imitative":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ji-b\u0259r"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "babble",
      "bumble",
      "chat",
      "chatter",
      "drivel",
      "drool",
      "gabble",
      "jabber",
      "prattle",
      "sputter"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-103343",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "gibberish":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a technical or esoteric (see esoteric sense 1 ) language":[
        "The doctors spoke to one another in their medical gibberish that I was unable to follow."
      ],
      ": pretentious or needlessly obscure language":[
        "The substance of the philosopher's work is buried in polysyllabic gibberish ."
      ],
      ": unintelligible or meaningless language:":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "She was talking gibberish in her sleep.",
      "was so excited he could only talk gibberish",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "These references, and the relentless assault of \u201870s needle drops, are fun, to a point, but the movie itself is 87 minutes of pure chaos, a hallucinatory, cacophonous fever dream of nonsensical subplots and Minion gibberish . \u2014 Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times , 29 June 2022",
      "With that, the beautiful bird jumped off the low branch and walked off into an alder patch, tired of my gibberish . \u2014 Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News , 20 Mar. 2022",
      "As McCartney strums and murmurs gibberish , a melody begins to form. \u2014 Travis M. Andrews, Anchorage Daily News , 7 Dec. 2021",
      "As McCartney strums and murmurs gibberish , a melody begins to form. \u2014 Travis M. Andrews, Anchorage Daily News , 7 Dec. 2021",
      "Speaking gibberish came with some distinct advantages. \u2014 Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter , 12 Feb. 2022",
      "In the end, as noted, Bush turned the duties test into highly manipulable gibberish . \u2014 Timothy Noah, The New Republic , 2 Feb. 2022",
      "These were the cynical operations that fleetingly gamed Google by snatching up keywords and came to dominate the web with gibberish . \u2014 Virginia Heffernan, Wired , 15 Feb. 2022",
      "As McCartney strums and murmurs gibberish , a melody begins to form. \u2014 Travis M. Andrews, Anchorage Daily News , 7 Dec. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1554, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "probably from gibber":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8gi-",
      "\u02c8ji-b(\u0259-)rish",
      "\u02c8ji-b\u0259-rish"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "abracadabra",
      "babble",
      "blabber",
      "burble",
      "double Dutch",
      "double-talk",
      "drivel",
      "gabble",
      "gibber",
      "jabber",
      "jabberwocky",
      "mumbo jumbo",
      "nonsense",
      "prattle",
      "slobber"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-075424",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "gibbsite":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a mineral Al(OH) 3 consisting of light-colored translucent aluminum hydroxide occurring as monoclinic crystals and also in stalactitic and spheroidal forms":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "George Gibbs \u20201833 American mineralogist + English -ite":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8gib\u02ccz\u012bt"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-134953",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "gibe":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to deride or tease with taunting words":[
        "boxers gibing each other before a fight"
      ],
      ": to utter taunting words":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "teammates gibing each other when one fouls up an important play",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "But the Space Force decision was announced six months ago, and suggesting it\u2019s at fault for the New Glenn delay doesn\u2019t gibe with Blue\u2019s previous statements. \u2014 Tim Fernholz, Quartz , 26 Feb. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1567, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "perhaps from Middle French giber to shake, handle roughly":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8j\u012bb"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for gibe scoff , jeer , gibe , fleer , sneer , flout mean to show one's contempt in derision or mockery. scoff stresses insolence, disrespect, or incredulity as motivating the derision. scoffed at their concerns jeer suggests a coarser more undiscriminating derision. the crowd jeered at the prisoners gibe implies taunting either good-naturedly or in sarcastic derision. hooted and gibed at the umpire fleer suggests grinning or grimacing derisively. the saucy jackanapes fleered at my credulity sneer stresses insulting by contemptuous facial expression, phrasing, or tone of voice. sneered at anything romantic flout stresses contempt shown by refusal to heed. flouted the conventions of polite society",
    "synonyms":[
      "deride",
      "jeer",
      "laugh (at)",
      "mock",
      "ridicule",
      "scout",
      "shoot down",
      "skewer"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-225024",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "gibel":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": crucian carp":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "German giebel (formerly spelled gibel )":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8g\u0113b\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-110421",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  }
}