[Related to JABBER and GIBBER.] intr. To speak rapidly and inarticulately; to chatter unintelligibly.
1824. Scott, Redgauntlet, Let. xi. The jackanape … jibbered and cried as if it was mocking its master.
1883. Hall Caine, Cobwebs of Crit., i. 16. A jibbering disposition to ‘break into ecstasies.’
1898. Westm. Gaz., 25 May, 3/2. The proud passenger … may jibber with fright. Ibid. (1900), 12 Sept., 4/2. They decline to learn … and jibber when corrected.
