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noun
A facetious or insulting remark; a jeer, a taunt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Alternative spelling of gybe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, alt-of, alternative
Topics: nautical, transport
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride, to mock, to taunt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Synonyms: flout, scoff, fleer, gird, jeer, jibe, scorn
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To say in a mocking or taunting manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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Synonyms: lampoon, needle, badger, bam, barrack, brock, bullyrag, chiack, deride, fleer, fligger, flite, geck, heckle, hound, jeer, nip, outlaugh, poke borack, ridicule, scoff, sneer, taunt, twit, befool, chaff, disparage, forgab, frump, gleek, jape, jibe, josh, kid, mimic, mock, niggle, razz, rib, roast, satirize, scorn, slag, tease, bust on, extract the urine, clown around, make a fool of, make fun of, make sport of, poke fun at, take the piss
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To make a mocking remark or remarks; to jeer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: laugh at, scorn, gird, jeer, jibe, scoff, sneer
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To accord or agree.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, US, informal, intransitive
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Alternative spelling of gybe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, alt-of, alternative
Topics: nautical, transport
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: shot, shaft, slam, dig, barb, gibe
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: remark, comment, input
Narrower terms: cheap shot
verb
shift from one side of the ship to the other
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: gybe, jib, change course
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: sail
verb
be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: match, fit, correspond, check, gibe, tally, agree
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: equal, be
Narrower terms: consist, look, answer, coincide, align, correlate, parallel, twin, duplicate, square, corroborate, underpin, bear out, support, resemble, meet, fit, conform to, homologize, befit, suit, beseem, harmonize, harmonise, consort, accord, concord, fit in, agree, pattern, adhere, rhyme, rime
History
Uncertain; possibly from Old French giber (“to engage in horseplay; to play roughly in sport”). Compare English jib (“usually of a horse: to stop and refuse to go forward”), Old Norse geipa (“to talk nonsense”). The noun is derived from the verb.
See gybe.
Origin unknown; perhaps related to chime (“to cause to sound in harmony”).
Across languages
44 source translations are retained for this English entry.
