gibbering

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gib·ber

(jĭb′ər)

intr.v. gib·bered, gib·ber·ing, gib·bers

To prattle and chatter unintelligibly.

Unintelligible or foolish talk.

[Imitative.]

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gibbering

[ˈdʒɪbərɪŋ] ADJ I must have sounded like a gibbering idiot → debí de sonar como un tonto balbuceando

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And a screaming incoherence, likewise, the doings of the Fire People and the Tree People, and the gibbering councils of the horde.

I told him of the terrors of that early time, of Lop-Ear and the pranks we played, of the gibbering councils, and of the Fire People and their squatting places.

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Through all the apparitions that preceded you and that compose the parts of you, you rose gibbering from the evolutionary mire, and gibbering you will pass on, interfusing, permeating the procession of apparitions that will succeed you.

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I have never forgotten that number, and always it comes to memory attended by gibbering obscenity, peals of joyless laughter, the clang of iron doors.

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and then she commenced her gibbering and shrieking again.

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Now, shrieking and gibbering through his frothy lips, his yellow fangs bared in a mad and horrid grin, he rushed full upon Norman of Torn.

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The aerial battle was over, and Thomas Mugridge, whining and gibbering, his mouth flecked with bloody foam, was brought down to deck.

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Greedily sucking in this intelligence, Gabriel solemnly warned the captain against attacking the white whale, in case the monster should be seen; in his gibbering insanity, pronouncing the White Whale to be no less a being than the Shaker God incarnated; the Shakers receiving the Bible.

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The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy; and I could forsake a drowning relative to help dispute about whether the stopple of a departed Buon Retiro scent-bottle was genuine or spurious.

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There were sounds of battering upon wood, loud growls and roars, mingled with weird shrieks and screams and the strange, uncanny gibbering of brainless things.

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Eh, you old scoundrel," he added, turning to the old chief, who sat gibbering in impotent rage at the foot of the steps.

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It was perhaps telling that one of the few moments of genuine fun and horror was from someone of the previous generation - a very drunk Damon Albarn from Blur and Gorillaz gibbering about Brexit.

Bored out of my brains.. until grime star brewed up a storm at the Brits

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