Definitions for gibes

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gibes gibe

Spelling: [jahyb]

IPA: /dʒaɪb/

Gibes is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in gibes (begis).

Definitions for gibes

noun

1. a taunting or sarcastic remark.
2. the act of jibing.

verb (used with object)

1. to taunt; deride.
2. to cause to jibe.

verb (used without object)

1. to utter mocking or scoffing words; jeer.
2. to shift from one side to the other when running before the wind, as a fore-and-aft sail or its boom.
3. to alter course so that a fore-and-aft sail shifts in this manner.

verb (used with or without object)

1. jibe1 .

Origin of gibes

1560-70; perhaps Middle French giber to handle roughly, shake, derivative of gibe staff, billhook

Examples for gibes

But the gibes of Newall and Parfitt were still rankling in his breast.

Took all their gibes and "dev'ling" quietly, and for the most part silently.

Whereat Socrates: When will you have done with your gibes, Callias?

But the man continued, in season and out of season, to make him the butt of his gibes.

What to her were the calumnies—the gibes—that were heaped upon him?

But we must make allowance for these girds and gibes at Democracy, of which we have given a specimen.

Not even Yorick, with his “gibes” and “flashes of merriment”—not even he is spared.

Their tone of pity cut him, and left him raw to the gibes of his opponents.

But they answered that they came not for gibes but for tears, that Balder might be saved.

The giantess is kept there by the gibes of Atli till the daybreak.