jibe
/d͡ʒaɪb/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.44 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "He flung subtle jibes at her until she couldn’t bear to work with him any longer."
- "Alas poore Yoricke, […] where be your gibes now? your gamboles? your ſongs? your flaſhes of merriment, that were wont to ſet the table on a roare, not one now to mocke your owne grinning, quite chopfalne."
- "Come, come, we / All are Friends, nor have we Time for Jibe, / Or Anger now, but 'gainſt our common Foes, / The French and Scot; there let your Pray'rs, and Jeſts, / And Blows, be levell’d."
- "She ran and ran / As if she feared some goblin man / Dogged her with gibe or curse / Or something worse: […]"
- "He bent to all the gibes and prejudices, to all hatred and discrimination, with that rare courtesy which is the armor of pure souls."
- "He had written two novels: one of them violently anti-Catholic, just before his conversion, and five years later another, in which he had attempted to turn all his clever jibes against Catholics into even cleverer innuendoes against Episcopalians."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Old French
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /d͡ʒaɪb/
- British English: /d͡ʒaɪb/