gibber vs gibberish what difference
what is difference between gibber and gibberish
English
Etymology 1
Uncertain; see gibberish.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdʒɪbə(ɹ)/
- Rhymes: -ɪbə(r)
Noun
gibber (countable and uncountable, plural gibbers)
- Gibberish, unintelligible speech.
Verb
gibber (third-person singular simple present gibbers, present participle gibbering, simple past and past participle gibbered)
- To jabber, talk rapidly and unintelligibly or incoherently.
Translations
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:chatter
Etymology 2
From Dharug giba.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡɪbə/
Noun
gibber (plural gibbers)
- (Australia) A boulder, a stone; a mass of stone. [from 18th c.]
Derived terms
- gibber bird
- gibber stone
See also
- reg, desert pavement
Etymology 3
gib + -er
Noun
gibber (plural gibbers)
- A balky horse.
- 1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse
- A hasty and passionate breaker will often make a really goodtempered young horse an inveterate gibber
- 1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse
References
gibber in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈɡib.ber/, [ˈɡɪbːɛɾ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒib.ber/, [ˈd͡ʒibːɛr]
Adjective
gibber (feminine gibbera, neuter gibberum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)
- humpbacked, hunchbacked
Declension
First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).
Noun
gibber m (genitive gibberis); third declension
- a hump, hunch on the back
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Synonyms
- (hump, hunch): gibbus
Derived terms
- gibberōsus
Related terms
- gibbus
References
- gibber in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- gibber in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
English
Etymology
ca. 16th century. Either an onomatopoeia, imitating to the sound of chatter, probably influenced by jabber, or derived from the root of the Irish gob (“the mouth”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdʒɪb.ə.ɹɪʃ/
Noun
gibberish (usually uncountable, plural gibberishes)
- Speech or writing that is unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless.
- Such gibberish as children may be heard amusing themselves with.
- Needlessly obscure or overly technical language.
- A language game, comparable to pig Latin, in which one inserts a nonsense syllable before the first vowel in each syllable of a word.
Synonyms
- gibber
- See also Thesaurus:nonsense
Translations
See also
- double Dutch
- framis
- gobbledygook, gobbledegook
- galimatias
- jargon
- mumbo jumbo
- nonsense
- rhubarb rhubarb
Adjective
gibberish (comparative more gibberish, superlative most gibberish)
- unintelligible, incoherent or meaningless