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To gibber is to talk very fast in little broken bits, so that other people cannot catch the words. It often happens when someone is very or shocked, and the mouth runs ahead of the mind. The sounds may be English words, but they tumble out in a mess. You will hear it more in stories and news writing than in calm everyday talk: he was gibbering with fear. It is not a kind description — it makes the speaker sound out of control. Though actually, people also use it of quick, messy animal noise, like a monkey. It is not the same as chatting, and it is not speaking another language.
語無倫次地說(嚇到或激動時嘰哩呱啦講個不停)
組成Uncertain. Usually regarded as a back-formation from gibberish: English probably made the verb by cutting -ish off the older noun, not the other way round.
同家族的字
- gibberishnonsense talk; gibber is usually taken as cut down from this
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
gibbernoun詞源 1/ˈd͡ʒɪbə(ɹ)/
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Gibberish, unintelligible speech.
gibberverb詞源 1/ˈd͡ʒɪbə(ɹ)/
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To jabber, talk rapidly and unintelligibly or incoherently.
- A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, / The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead / Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets – […]
gibbernoun詞源 2/ˈɡɪbə/
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A stone or rock, of chalcedony or similar mineral, found strewn over arid regions of inland Australia; a gibber stone.
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Any small rock or stone, especially one used for throwing.
- “Well, all I can say is that if yer don't take yer dial outer the road I'll bloomin' well take an' bounce a gibber off yer crust.”
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obsoleteA large boulder or rocky outcrop; also, an overhanging rock formation.
gibbernoun詞源 3
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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
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。