gib
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Unknown (14th century). Perhaps abbreviated from Gilbert, the name of the cat in the medieval fables of Reynard the Fox, Romaunt of the Rose, and so on.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɡɪb/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- UK sometimes also IPA(key): /d͡ʒɪb/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -ɪb
Noun
[edit]gib (plural gibs)
- A castrated male cat or ferret.
- A male cat; a tomcat.
- A hooked prolongation on the lower jaw of a male salmon or trout.
- The lower lip of a horse.
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Unknown (late 18th century).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gib (plural gibs)
- A strip, wedge, or bolt made from metal or wood and used for holding a machine part in place; usually with features (such as a taper and/or set screws) that allow for fine adjustment of the part's position.
Translations
[edit]Verb
[edit]gib (third-person singular simple present gibs, present participle gibbing, simple past and past participle gibbed)
Etymology 3
[edit]Shortened from giblet.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gib (plural gibs)
- (video games) Miscellaneous pieces of a fragged character, most often in first-person shooters.
Verb
[edit]gib (third-person singular simple present gibs, present participle gibbing, simple past and past participle gibbed)
- (transitive, video games) To blast an enemy or opponent into gibs.
Etymology 4
[edit]From the trademark GIB, registered by Fletcher Building Holdings Limited, the major brand of plasterboard in New Zealand.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (New Zealand) IPA(key): /dʒɘb/
- Rhymes: -ɘb
Noun
[edit]gib (uncountable)
Verb
[edit]gib (third-person singular simple present gibs, present participle gibbing, simple past and past participle gibbed)
- (New Zealand) To install plasterboard.
- 2014 October 4, Chris Hutching, “An earthquake repair story from the south”, in NBR:
- As the wallpaper stripping progresses the damage to walls becomes more apparent. It may require more variation orders for gibbing of walls as well as ceilings.
Etymology 5
[edit]Verb
[edit]gib
- Pronunciation spelling of give.
- 1880, Albion W. Tourgee, “Red Wing”, in Bricks Without Straw, New York, N.Y.: Fords, Howard, & Hulbert; London: Sampson Low & Co.; Montreal, Que.: Dawson Bros., page 87:
- Only gib me some few shingles an’ a flo’, an’ dar yer hev jes ez good a church ez de ’postles ebber hed ter preach in.
- 1896, Opie Read, chapter VIII, in The Jucklins, Chicago, Ill.: Laird & Lee, pages 105 and 107:
- I has gib you licker an’ I has gib you music, an’ wife, dar, is cookin’ supper fur you, an’ it ain’ no mo’ den reason dat I’d wanter know whut we gwine git fur it. […] “Yo’ supper is done an’ ef you’ll jest gib me room I’ll fix de table,” the woman remarked, taking the bread off the griddle.
- 1902, John Kendrick Bangs, Bikey the Skicycle & Other Tales of Jimmieboy, New York, N.Y.: Riggs Publishing Company, page 181:
- De kindest heartedest little boy in de worl’ would forget to gib his cat its dinner if he had a new toy to play wid, or a new suit o’ party dress to put on to show his poppy when he come home.
- 1938, Hervey Allen, Action at Aquila, New York, N.Y.: Farrar & Rinehart, page 98:
- Please, Mars’ Gineral, do gib me dime fer snack.
- 1988, Lynda Barry, The Good Times Are Killing Me, published 2020, →ISBN:
- Don’t your mommy gib you bacoln?
- 2002 July, Patricia Sprinkle, Who Invited the Dead Man?, Signet, →ISBN:
- “My daddy doesn’t gib me guns, ’cause he doesn’t like dem. But Pop will gib me one when I gets ten.”
- 2007, Victoria Pade, A Family for the Holidays, Silhouette Books, →ISBN, page 12:
- “Maybe you could jus’ gib me one, then,” she suggested sweetly.
- 2021 March, Srashti Behure, Unconditional: Pets Over Peeps, Spectrum of Thoughts (an affiliate of FanatiXx), →ISBN:
- Hooman you is nice, / You gib me bath so I no hab lice.
- 2022 February 8, Sohini Sengupta, “Dogs react to human freezing their favourite toys. Watch hilarious video”, in Hindustan Times[1]:
- “Gib us our toy bacc!” reads the caption accompanying this dog video [by @lifewithkleekai].
See also
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Afar
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gib m (plural giibitté f or gibwá f)
References
[edit]- Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[3], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)
German
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ɡiːp/ (chiefly in formal speech)
- IPA(key): /ɡɪp/ (overall more common)
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -iːp, -ɪp
Verb
[edit]gib
Lower Sorbian
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Polish
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[edit]gib
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gybъ.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]gȋb m (Cyrillic spelling ги̑б)
Declension
[edit]References
[edit]- “gib”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
Sumerian
[edit]Romanization
[edit]gib
- Romanization of 𒄃 (gib)
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