gib

See also: Gib, GIB, GiB, and Gib.

English

Etymology 1

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

• IPA^(key): /ɡɪb/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• UK sometimes also IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɪb/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɪb

Noun

gib (plural gibs)

1. A castrated male cat or ferret.
2. A male cat; a tomcat.
3. A hooked prolongation on the lower jaw of a male salmon or trout.
4. The lower lip of a horse.

Derived terms

• gib-cat

Etymology 2

Unknown (late 18th century).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɪb/ or IPA^(key): /ɡɪb/ (both are common)

Noun

gib (plural gibs)

1. 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

used for holding a machine part in place

• Bulgarian: чивия (bg) f (čivija)

A castrated male cat

• Bulgarian: кастриран котарак m (kastriran kotarak)
• Volapük: hokat

Verb

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 3

Shortened from giblet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒɪb/
• Rhymes: -ɪb

Noun

gib (plural gibs)

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

Verb

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

1. (transitive, video games) To destroy an in-game object so that it turns into gibs.
   • 2023 August 10, Austin Suther, “Turbo Overkill Review - Become Chainsaw Man”, in TechRaptor‎^[1]:

     Johnny Turbo has a chainsaw leg he can use to slide around and gib enemies […]

2. (intransitive, video games) To be turned into gibs.
   • 2020 September 24, Antal Bokor, “Review: Over the Top Serious Sam 4 Is More of What you Want”, in Third Coast Review‎^[2]:

     Weapons like the Devastator and other explosives make enemies gib into a bloody gore, while the auto shotgun can easily mow down hordes of, well, anything.

Derived terms

• gibber
• instagib

Etymology 4

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

Pronunciation

• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /dʒɘb/
• Rhymes: -ɘb

Noun

gib (uncountable)

1. (New Zealand) plasterboard.

Verb

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 5

Verb

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?, 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^[3]:

     “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^[4]:

     “I be model for fotos, now you gib treats”

See also

• gnaB giB

Anagrams

• IGB, BIG, big, GBI

Afar

Etymology

From Arabic جَيْب (jayb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡib/ [ɡɪb]
• Hyphenation: gib

Noun

gib m (plural giibitté f or gibwá f)

1. pocket

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[5], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡiːp/ (chiefly in formal speech)
• IPA^(key): /ɡɪp/ (overall more common)

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -iːp, -ɪp

Verb

gib

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

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

• gibaj

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʲip/

Verb

gib

1. second-person singular imperative of gibaś

Polish

Pronunciation

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

Verb

gib

1. second-person singular imperative of gibać

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gybъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡîːb/

Noun

gȋb m (Cyrillic spelling ги̑б)

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

Declension

Declension of gib

	singular	plural
nominative	gȋb	gȉbovi
genitive	giba	gibova
dative	gibu	gibovima
accusative	gib	gibove
vocative	gibe	gibovi
locative	gibu	gibovima
instrumental	gibom	gibovima

References

• “gib”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Sumerian

Romanization

gib

1. Romanization of 𒄃 (gib)