Crossword clues for gibe
gibe
- Pointed remark
- Insulting remark
- Sarcastic remark
- Taunting laugh
- Unkind remark
- Sneer at
- Sharp remark
- Aggressive remark
- Take digs at
- Contemptuous comment
- Derisive comment
- "Yo mama" joke, e.g
- Snide comment
- Take a dig at
- Hurl insults at
- Verbal salvo
- Utter taunting words
- Taunting insult
- Taunting crack
- Taunting comment
- Taunt verbally
- Sly dig
- Mock or jeer
- Cruel wisecrack
- Brickbat
- Taunting remark
- Jeer
- Mocking remark
- Barbed remark
- Dig
- Scoff at
- Wisecrack
- Bronx cheer
- Ridicule
- Razz
- Snide remark
- "Your mama wears army boots," e.g.
- An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
- Twitting remark
- Deride
- Reproachful remark
- Verbal thrust (4)
- Taunt; jeer
- Verbal thrust
- Poke fun at
- Cutting remark
- Nasty remark
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gibe \Gibe\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gibed; p. pr. & vb. n. Gibing.] [Cf. Prov. F. giber, equiv. to F. jouer to play, Icel. geipa to talk nonsense, E. jabber.] To cast reproaches and sneering expressions; to rail; to utter taunting, sarcastic words; to flout; to fleer; to scoff.
Fleer and gibe, and laugh and flout.
--Swift.
Gibe \Gibe\, v. i. To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride; to scoff at; to mock.
Draw the beasts as I describe them,
From their features, while I gibe them.
--Swift.
Gibe \Gibe\, n. An expression of sarcastic scorn; a sarcastic jest; a scoff; a taunt; a sneer.
Mark the fleers, the gibes, and notable scorns.
--Shak.
With solemn gibe did Eustace banter me.
--Tennyson.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
alternative spelling of jibe.
Wiktionary
n. A facetious or insult remark; a jeer or taunt. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To perform a jibe (2, 3). 2 (context intransitive English) To agree. 3 (context transitive English) To cause to execute a gibe (2, 3). 4 (context ambitransitive English) To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride; to mock.
WordNet
n. an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect; "his parting shot was `drop dead'"; "she threw shafts of sarcasm"; "she takes a dig at me every chance she gets" [syn: shot, shaft, slam, dig, barb, jibe]
v. be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics; "The two stories don't agree in many details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun" [syn: match, fit, correspond, check, jibe, tally, agree] [ant: disagree]
laugh at with contempt and derision; "The crowd jeered at the speaker" [syn: jeer, scoff, flout, barrack]
Wikipedia
Gibe may refer to:
- Gibe River, located in southwestern Ethiopia
- Gibe region, the drainage area south of this river
- Sneer, to deride or tease with taunting words, also spelt "gybe" or "jibe"
Gibe is one of the woredas in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. Part of the Hadiya Zone, Gibe is bordered on the south by Gomibora, on the west by the Yem Special Woreda, and on the north and east by Misha. Towns in Misha include Hamecho. It was part of former Konteb woreda.
Usage examples of "gibe".
He made twisting motions to get the idea across to Alb, but the young man just stood there stupidly, no doubt listening to the gibes of his own circle of friends.
G before i is hard, as give, except in giant, gigantick, gibbet, gibe, giblets, Giles, gill, gilliflower, gin, ginger, gingle, to which may be added Egypt and gypsy.
Then for the last time the mutineers heard his voice and they ceased their gibes at the dignity of his tones as he spoke to those whom he thought yet faithful to him on board.
A strident, gibing burst of merriment, the pealing tones reechoed through the courtyard, a pean of victory that brought awe to those who heard it.
Three brawny rogues who, scowling, fiercely eyed him, And with lewd gibes and mocking gestures plied him.
She was back to cosying up to Barong the Gorgeous, back as well to gibing at me at every opportunity.
G before i is hard, as give, except in giant, gigantick, gibbet, gibe, giblets, Giles, gill, gilliflower, gin, ginger, gingle, to which may be added Egypt and gypsy.
Reading the letter again and again Elaine could come to no decision as to whether this was merely a courageous gibe at defeat, or whether it represented the real value that Comus set on the thing that he had lost.
Worshipping power and force and money-mastery as an elderly nerveridden woman might worship youthful physical energy, the comfortable, plump-bodied cafe-oracle had jested and gibed at the ambitions of the Balkan kinglets and their peoples, had unloosed against them that battery of strange lip-sounds that a Viennese employs almost as an auxiliary language to express the thoughts when his thoughts are not complimentary.
Olivia, accustomed to gibes of this kind from her children took no notice but stared at Chloe, awaiting a further naivete.
And he cried, 'O King of the age, the barber is abased, trodden underfoot, given over to the sneers and the gibes of them that flatter the powerful ones.
Viljo's gibe about the Dominion backwaters had finally crystallized for him exactly why he felt uncomfortable with this group: with the exception of Deutsch, all the others came from worlds older and more distinguished than Horizon-and Deutsch, as the only Cobra trainee from Adirondack, had obvious status as native authority on one of the two worlds the Trofts had captured.
Viljo's gibe about the Dominion backwaters had finally crystallized for him exactly why he felt uncomfortable with this group: with the exception of Deutsch, all the others came from worlds older and more distinguished than Horizonand Deutsch, as the only Cobra trainee from Adirondack, had obvious status as native authority on one of the two worlds the Trofts had captured.
A placid, easygoing man, Troy took Barret's gibes and caustic comments in silence, doing his work and getting it finished on time.
Two boys from different worlds, they had come face to face on the main fish wharf and their hostility had been instantaneous, their hackles rising like dogs, and within minutes, gibes and insults had turned to blows and they had flown at each other furiously, punching and wrestling down the wharf while the coloured trawlermen had egged them on delightedly.