Meaning of Jibe | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A facetious or insulting remark; a jeer, a taunt.
2. Alternative spelling of gybe.
   US, alt-of, alternative

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Examples

“He flung subtle jibes at her until she couldn’t bear⟳ to work⟳ with him any longer.”

“Alas poore Yoricke, […] where be your gibes now? your gamboles? your ſongs? your flaſhes of merriment, that were wont to ſet the table on a roare, not one now to mocke your owne grinning, quite chopfalne.”

“Come⟳, come⟳, we / All are Friends, nor have⟳ we Time for Jibe, / Or Anger now, but 'gainſt our common Foes, / The French and Scot; there let⟳ your Pray'rs, and Jeſts, / And Blows, be levell’d.”

“She ran and ran / As if she feared some goblin man / Dogged her with gibe or curse / Or something worse: […]”

“He bent to all the gibes and prejudices, to all hatred and discrimination, with that rare courtesy which is the armor of pure souls.”

“He had written two novels: one of them violently anti-Catholic, just before his conversion, and five years later another, in which he had attempted to turn⟳ all his clever jibes against Catholics into even cleverer innuendoes against Episcopalians.”

“[George] Carlin's opening-night monologue included some blunt gibes at organized religion which would almost certainly have⟳ been cut⟳ out of any other network show⟳.”

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