See also: GIB, GiB, and Gib.

EnglishEdit

 
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Etymology 1Edit

Unknown (18th century). Perhaps abbreviated from Gilbert, the name of the cat in the old story of Reynard the Fox, in the Romaunt of the Rose, etc.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ɡɪb/
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  • UK sometimes also IPA(key): /d͡ʒɪb/
  • Rhymes: -ɪb

NounEdit

gib (plural gibs)

  1. A bolt or wedge made from wood or metal used for holding a machine part in place.
  2. A castrated male cat or ferret.
  3. A male cat; a tomcat.
  4. A hooked prolongation on the lower jaw of a male salmon or trout.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit

VerbEdit

gib (third-person singular simple present gibs, present participle gibbing, simple past and past participle gibbed)

  1. To fasten in place with a gib.

Etymology 2Edit

Shortened from giblet.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

gib (plural gibs)

  1. (video games) Miscellaneous pieces of a fragged character, most often in first-person shooters.

VerbEdit

gib (third-person singular simple present gibs, present participle gibbing, simple past and past participle gibbed)

  1. (transitive, video games) To blast an enemy or opponent into gibs.

Etymology 3Edit

From the trademark GIB, registered by Fletcher Building Holdings Limited, the major brand of plasterboard in New Zealand.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

gib (uncountable)

  1. (New Zealand) plasterboard.

VerbEdit

gib (third-person singular simple present gibs, present participle gibbing, simple past and past participle gibbed)

  1. (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 4Edit

VerbEdit

gib

  1. 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?, →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].
    • 2022 February 10, Steve Rouge, “The Cutest Puppies of the Day”, in Medium[2]:
      “I be model for fotos, now you gib treats”
Usage notesEdit

Used in DoggoLingo.

See alsoEdit

AnagramsEdit

AfarEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Arabic جَيْب(jayb).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ɡib/
  • Hyphenation: gib

NounEdit

gib m (plural giibitté f or gibwá f)

  1. pocket

ReferencesEdit

  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[3], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

GermanEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

gib

  1. singular imperative of geben
  2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of geben

Lower SorbianEdit

Alternative formsEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

gib

  1. second-person singular imperative of gibaś

PolishEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ɡip/
  • Rhymes: -ip
  • Syllabification: gib

VerbEdit

gib

  1. second-person singular imperative of gibać

Serbo-CroatianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Slavic *gybъ.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

gȋb m (Cyrillic spelling ги̑б)

  1. movement (of body or a body part)
  2. fold
  3. joint

DeclensionEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • gib” in Hrvatski jezični portal

SumerianEdit

RomanizationEdit

gib

  1. Romanization of 𒄃 (gib)