gibbled

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1. CanadainformalDisorganized, awkward, messed up.

   I'm serious (jump in topics), my thumb really hurts. You should see how gibbled my hand looks as I'm writing right now.

   1999, Katie Ouriou, Julie Johnston, Love Ya Like a Sister: A Story of Friendship, Tundra Books, →ISBN, page 155

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   I tried to swing my hips, to swish my skirt across the top of my calves, the way Mom's did. My feet became tangled. I tripped over my heavy boots and tumbled to the ground. My pail flew out of my hand and the few berries I'd gathered scattered onto the forest floor. My awkward sprawl sent Morgan and Carl into shrills of laughter. 'Look at Nat. She's gibbled,' they shrieked.

   2008, Donna Milner, After River, London: Quercus, →ISBN, page 63

   When Liz was pregnant with her, they say, ultrasound technology was much cruder. Every once in a while you got a flash of a limb or an organ, but the image was so gibbled you started having nightmares that your baby was misshapen or maybe in pieces.

   2014, Joan Thomas, The Opening Sky, Toronto, O.N.: McClelland & Stewart, →ISBN, page 102