Meaning

A facetious or insulting remark; a jeer, a taunt..

Definitions by Sense

1. A facetious or insulting remark; a jeer, a taunt.
2. (transitive) To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride, to mock, to taunt.
3. (transitive) To say in a mocking or taunting manner.
4. (intransitive) To make a mocking remark or remarks; to jeer.
5. (intransitive, Canada, US, informal) To accord or agree.
6. (nautical, now chiefly US) Alternative spelling of gybe.

Example Sentences

He flung subtle jibes at her until she couldn’t bear to work with him any longer.

Alas poore Yoricke, […] where be your gibes now? your gamboles? your ſongs? your flaſhes of merriment, that were wont to ſet the table on a roare, not one now to mocke your owne grinning, quite chopfalne.

Come, come, we / All are Friends, nor have we Time for Jibe, / Or Anger now, but 'gainſt our common Foes, / The French and Scot; there let your Pray'rs, and Jeſts, / And Blows, be levell’d.

She ran and ran / As if she feared some goblin man / Dogged her with gibe or curse / Or something worse: […]

He bent to all the gibes and prejudices, to all hatred and discrimination, with that rare courtesy which is the armor of pure souls.

He had written two novels: one of them violently anti-Catholic, just before his conversion, and five years later another, in which he had attempted to turn all his clever jibes against Catholics into even cleverer innuendoes against Episcopalians.

[George] Carlin's opening-night monologue included some blunt gibes at organized religion which would almost certainly have been cut out of any other network show.

[Y]ou / Did pocket vp my Letters: and with taunts / Did gibe my Miſive out of audience.

Word Forms

• jibes
• jibing
• jibed
• gibe
• gybe

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