giber

giber

English

Etymology

gibe +‎ -er

Noun

giber (plural gibers)

1. One who utters gibes.
   • c. 1605–1608, Shakespeare, William, Coriolanus, act 2, scene 1, lines 76–78:

     Come, come, you are well understood to be a perfecter / giber for the table than a necessary bencher in the / Capitol.

   • 1611, Ben[jamin] Jonson, Catiline His Conspiracy, London: […] [William Stansby?] for Walter Burre, OCLC 1048971098, (please specify |act=I to V):

     Come Sempronia , leave him;
     He is a giber; and our present business
     Is of more serious consequence

   • 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XI, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 108:

     Aloof you stand and hear the railer's gibe / While rain their shafts on me the giber-band.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:joker

Anagrams

• Birge, Grieb