Gibe vs Gibed - What's the difference?

gibe | gibed |

As verbs the difference between gibe and gibed

is that gibe is to perform a jibe (2, 3) while gibed is past tense of gibe.

As a noun gibe

is a facetious or insulting remark; a jeer or taunt.

As a proper noun GibE

is abbreviation of Gibraltarian English|lang=en.

gibe

English

Alternative forms

* gybe * jibe

Noun

(en noun)

A facetious or insulting remark; a jeer or taunt.

* 1603 , , Hamlet , act 5, scene 1:

Hamlet : Alas, poor Yorick! . . . Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?

Verb

(en-verb)

To perform a jibe (2, 3).

To agree.

That explanation doesn't gibe with the facts.

To cause to execute a gibe (2, 3).

(ambitransitive) To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride; to mock.

* Jonathan Swift

Draw the beasts as I describe them, / From their features, while I gibe them.

* Jonathan Swift

Fleer and gibe , and laugh and flout.

Anagrams

gibed

English

Verb

(head)

(gibe)

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gibe

English

Alternative forms

* gybe * jibe

Noun

(en noun)

A facetious or insulting remark; a jeer or taunt.

* 1603 , , Hamlet , act 5, scene 1:

Hamlet : Alas, poor Yorick! . . . Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?

Verb

(en-verb)

To perform a jibe (2, 3).

To agree.

That explanation doesn't gibe with the facts.

To cause to execute a gibe (2, 3).

(ambitransitive) To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride; to mock.

* Jonathan Swift

Draw the beasts as I describe them, / From their features, while I gibe them.

* Jonathan Swift

Fleer and gibe , and laugh and flout.