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Gurgle vs Gibber - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between gurgle and gibber

is that gurgle is to flow with a bubbling sound while gibber is to jabber, talk rapidly and unintelligibly or incoherently.

As nouns the difference between gurgle and gibber

is that gurgle is a gurgling sound while gibber is gibberish, unintelligible speech.

gurgle

English

Verb

  • To flow with a bubbling sound.
    • The bath water gurgled down the drain.
  • * Young
    • Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace, / And waste their music on the savage race.
  • To make such a sound.
    • The baby gurgled with delight.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A gurgling sound.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
    • Then the conversation broke off, and there was little more talking, only a noise of men going backwards and forwards, and of putting down of kegs and the hollow gurgle of good liquor being poured from breakers into the casks.

    Anagrams

    * * English onomatopoeias ----

    gibber

    English

    Etymology 1

    Uncertain; see gibberish.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Gibberish, unintelligible speech.

    • Verb

  • To jabber, talk rapidly and unintelligibly or incoherently.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A boulder, a stone.
    • See also
    * reg, desert pavement

    Etymology 3

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A balky horse.
    • (Youatt)
    (Webster 1913) ----