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GIBBER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unintelligible talking

Synonyms:

gibber; gibberish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("gibber" is a kind of...):

bunk; hokum; meaninglessness; nonsense; nonsensicality (a message that seems to convey no meaning)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gibber"):

abracadabra (gibberish and nonsense)

babble; babbling; lallation (gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby)

blather; blatherskite (foolish gibberish)

double Dutch (an incomprehensible talk)

double talk (deliberately unintelligible gibberish)

gabble; jabber; jabbering (rapid and indistinct speech)

mumbo jumbo (language or ritual causing, or intending to cause, confusion)

Derivation:

gibber (chatter inarticulately; of monkeys)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Chatter inarticulately; of monkeys

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "gibber" is one way to...):

emit; let loose; let out; utter (express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

gibber; gibberish (unintelligible talking)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

Synonyms:

blab; blabber; chatter; clack; gabble; gibber; maunder; palaver; piffle; prate; prattle; tattle; tittle-tattle; twaddle

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "gibber" is one way to...):

mouth; speak; talk; utter; verbalise; verbalize (express in speech)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "gibber"):

babble; blather; blether; blither; smatter (to talk foolishly)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

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