giber, jiber
(ˈdʒaɪbə(r))
[f. gibe v. + -er1.]
One who gibes; one who utters gibes and taunts.
| 1563 Homilies ii. Inform. Cert. Places Script. ii. (1859) 379 Provoke him not to pour out his wrath now upon you, as he did then upon those gibers and mockers. 1607 Shakes. Cor. ii. i. 91 You are..vnderstood to be a perfecter gyber for the Table, then a necessary Bencher in the Capitoll. 1612 Shelton Quix. i. iii. 16 The Oast, who, as we noted before, was a great giber. a 1745 Swift Char. Sir R. Walpole in Lett. C'tess Suffolk (1824) II. 32 Of virtue and worth by profession a giber; Of juries and senates the bully and briber. 1881 Daily News 8 Aug. 5/1 The most relentless jiber at the amusements of Congresses will hardly refuse to admit that [etc.]. |