Verb: gibber ji-bu(r)
- Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
"The old man gibbered on about the weather";
- chatter, piffle [informal], palaver [informal], prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle [informal], clack [informal], maunder, prattle, blab [informal], tattle, blabber [informal], gabble, vapour [Brit, Cdn], vapor [US], rabbit [Brit, informal], jibber-jabber, witter [Brit, informal], twattle [UK, dialect], yatter [Brit, informal], yabber [informal]
- Chatter inarticulately; of monkeys
"The monkeys gibbered excitedly as they swung through the trees"
- Unintelligible talking
"The toddler's excited babbling sounded like gibber to the adults";
- gibberish
Derived forms: gibbers, gibbering, gibbered
Type of: bunk [informal], emit, hokum [informal], let loose, let out, meaninglessness, mouth, nonsense, nonsensicality, speak, talk, utter, verbalise [Brit], verbalize
Encyclopedia: Gibber