garbley

comparative more garbley · superlative most garbley

1. alternativeAlternative form of garbly.

   There was a garbley mess of incoherent speech before the screen shook and Father Jim disappeared off-stage.

   2021, J. A. Bouma, chapter 6, in Apocalypse Rising (End Times Chronicles; season 2, episode 3), Grand Rapids, Mich.: EmmausWay Press, →ISBN

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   I urged Josh to speed up, but he only laughed that grating, garbley, evil-sounding laugh of his, whilst thoroughly enjoying my discomfiture.

   1998, Malachy McCourt, A Monk Swimming: A Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Hyperion, →ISBN, page 31

   Riley speaks but it just sounds garbley to me. He’s looking at the park spirit. Then the spirit says something garbley to Riley.

   2016, Daniel José Older, “Skin Like Porcelain Death”, in Salsa Nocturna: A Bone Street Rumba Collection, Naperville, Ill.: JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc., →ISBN, page 79