garbley

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Adjective

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garbley (comparative more garbley, superlative most garbley)

  1. Alternative form of garbly.
    • 1998, Malachy McCourt, A Monk Swimming: A Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Hyperion, →ISBN, page 31:
      I urged Josh to speed up, but he only laughed that grating, garbley, evil-sounding laugh of his, whilst thoroughly enjoying my discomfiture.
    • 2016, Daniel José Older, “Skin Like Porcelain Death”, in Salsa Nocturna: A Bone Street Rumba Collection, Naperville, Ill.: JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc., →ISBN, page 79:
      Riley speaks but it just sounds garbley to me. He’s looking at the park spirit. Then the spirit says something garbley to Riley.
    • 2021, J. A. Bouma, chapter 6, in Apocalypse Rising (End Times Chronicles; season 2, episode 3), Grand Rapids, Mich.: EmmausWay Press, →ISBN:
      There was a garbley mess of incoherent speech before the screen shook and Father Jim disappeared off-stage.

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