gibe

noun

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of gybe.
2. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of jibe (“facetious or insulting remark”).

   “Alas poore Yoricke, […] where be your gibes now? your gamboles? your ſongs? your flaſhes of merriment, that were wont to ſet the table on a roare, not one now to mocke your owne grinning, quite chopfalne.”

   “[George] Carlin's opening-night monologue included some blunt gibes at organized religion which would almost certainly have been cut out of any other network show.”

   “But an ugly eruption of racist gibes against some of its young Black players was a reminder that not everyone glories in the diverse portrait of the country that this team reflects.”

verb

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of gybe.
2. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of jibe.

   “Why thats the way to choake a gibing ſpirrit, / Whoſe influence is begot of that looſe grace, / Which ſhallow laughing hearers giue to fooles, […]”

   “[Y]ou / Did pocket vp my Letters: and with taunts / Did gibe my Miſive out of audience.”

   “This ſet the old Gentlevvoman a Laughing at me, as you may be ſure it vvould: VVell, Madam, Forſooth, ſays ſhe, Gibing at me, you vvould be a Gentlevvoman, and hovv vvill you come to be a Gentlevvoman? VVhat vvill you do it by your Fingers Ends?”

name

1. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of Gibraltarian English.