Etymology

jibe

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Today it means: A facetious or insulting remark; a jeer, a taunt. Full definition →

Old French giber
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jibe · noun, verb1

  1. Old French · derived fromgiber“to engage in horseplay; to play roughly in sport”
  2. English todayjibe

Uncertain; possibly from Old French giber (“to engage in horseplay; to play roughly in sport”). Compare English jib (“usually of a horse: to stop and refuse to go forward”), Old Norse geipa (“to talk nonsense”). The noun is derived from the verb.

jibe · verb2

Origin unknown; perhaps related to chime (“to cause to sound in harmony”).

jibe · noun, verb3

See gybe.

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