Scorn vs Gibe - What's the difference?

scorn | gibe |

In transitive terms the difference between scorn and gibe

is that scorn is to refuse to do something, as beneath oneself while gibe is to cause to execute a gibe (2, 3).

In intransitive terms the difference between scorn and gibe

is that scorn is to scoff, express contempt while gibe is to agree.

As a proper noun GibE is

abbreviation of Gibraltarian English|lang=en.

scorn

English

Verb

(en verb)

To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.

* C. J. Smith

We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful.

To scoff, express contempt.

To reject, turn down

He scorned her romantic advances.

To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.

She scorned to show weakness.

Synonyms

* See also

Noun

(uncountable) Contempt or disdain.

(countable) A display of disdain; a slight.

* Dryden

Every sullen frown and bitter scorn / But fanned the fuel that too fast did burn.

(countable) An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.

* Bible, Psalms xliv. 13

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

Usage notes

* Scorn'' is often used in the phrases ''pour scorn on'' and ''heap scorn on .

Quotations

* circa 1605': The cry is still 'They come': our castle's strength / Will laugh a siege to '''scorn — '' * 1967', Rain of tears, real, mist of imagined '''scorn — John Berryman, ''Berryman's Sonnets . New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* scornful

Anagrams

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.