gibbier

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noun

wildfowl; game

OriginFrench gibier →
Scrabble 12
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Meanings

noun
  1. obsoletewildfowl; game

    the Fowl and Gibier are Tax free.

    1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 209
    1 more example

    The bread muſt ſoon be of the fineſt wheat; poultry and gibbier must be added to beef and mutton

    1787, John Adams, A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States

Origin

  1. Frenchgibier
  2. Englishgibbier

From French gibier.

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APA

gibbier. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gibbier

MLA

“gibbier.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gibbier. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gibbier,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gibbier.

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