What's the difference between fibber and gibber?

Fibber


Definition:

  • (n.) One who tells fibs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That same day Hunt could attend a bewildering array of fringe shows including the Smoke and Mirrors cabaret, Miles Jupp's cricket comedy Fibber in the Heat or the Traverse Theatre's Impossible Things Before Breakfast.
  • (2) Fibber Magees, tucked away up an alley near the Trade Centre District, is an exception.
  • (3) But as career fibbers, you’d think they’d at least have had an agreed plan on how to get out of the lies they’d told during the campaign.
  • (4) Venter first came to international attention as the "rogue" biologist who attached himself to the painstaking $5bn, 15-year programme to decode the human genetic blueprint, "the book of life" Human Genome Project and announced to anyone who would listen he could do it much more quickly and much more cheaply with private capital (the distinguished scientists leading the global initiative were, he insisted, "the Liars Club": habitual fibbers about costs and deadlines).
  • (5) The basement club feels like a meticulous recreation of Dublin indie disco bar Fibber Magees, a place where you can feel your Doc soles stick to the spilled beer as you dance the pogo.
  • (6) • 14 Rees St Queenstown , Town Centre 9300, +64 3-442 5382, pogmahones.co.nz JL Fibber Magees, Dubai, UAE You could be forgiven for being confused over the drinking laws in Dubai, a city in which it’s illegal to be drunk but OK to sell cocktails at $10,000 a pop; where Friday is the holy day and also the day of boozy brunch debauchery.
  • (7) Fibber fermentation also yields fatty acids that lower the concentration of free ammonia by lowering pH.

Gibber


Definition:

  • (n.) A balky horse.
  • (v. i.) To speak rapidly and inarticulately.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Quite a number of people brought up in the emotional straitjackets of the English upper classes found blessed relief in the permission the Holy Spirit gave them to weep or laugh and gibber and faint in public.
  • (2) "I like your watch," he says while I gibber into his big, beautiful, travel-befuddled face.
  • (3) At which point, the righteous rage against big business conveniently diverts towards these moronic corporate wannabes and their tragic, gibbering claims to be “the next Richard Branson”.
  • (4) Journalists write about the wonders of the Chiltern Firehouse like gibbering fanboys, without noting that the vast majority of Londoners will never eat there – and not because the restaurant is full until autumn; without noting that the homeless sit in the streets outside these palaces in greater numbers than before; and without noting that another noble public building – a Victorian gothic fire station, in the case of the Chiltern Firehouse – has been lost to private hands.
  • (5) One of the stranger sights in Britpop documentary Live Forever is that of fans gibberingly clutching copies of Be Here Now as if they were fragments of the Berlin Wall.
  • (6) You might have thought that the Liberals were gibbering paranoids.
  • (7) Cresswell somehow cleared Willian’s attempt from the line in stoppage time, but those missed opportunities merely added to the drama, both managers reduced to gibbering wrecks in their technical areas by the frantic majesty of the contest.
  • (8) We would just gibber on, entertaining ourselves, basically.” Somehow it worked.
  • (9) "Personally," he said, "I find Ed Miliband far easier to listen to … Listening to David Miliband, gibbering on about Iraq and his self-help soundbites, seemed as if we'd been plunged back into 2006."
  • (10) Who will scare the contestants and leave them gibbering with grateful awe now?
  • (11) For example, it reduces normally articulate and sophisticated people to gibbering in the online equivalent of grunts.
  • (12) If Hofstadter were alive today, he would doubtless write about the birther movement, or cast a scornful eye at the gibbering career of Glenn Beck, formerly of Fox News, who has all the traditional anxieties about secret societies and Jews.
  • (13) 2.42pm: Meanwhile Amit, James and Tim are surrounded by gibbering, uncouth, flea-ridden specimens: "Just thought we'd drop you a line to say we've just driven to the southern most point of Africa - Cape Agulhas - and are now driving through the desolate wastelands of rural SA to find a bar to watch the game.
  • (14) The only research worth doing is on why drugs policy reduces British politicians to gibbering wrecks.
  • (15) The distraught king is trapped in a “cage” made of the musicians themselves, and gibbers his agony, sometimes in a cruel parody of a well-known style (Handel’s Comfort Ye is invoked and mocked at one point).
  • (16) It was a physical shock – I was reduced to gibbering and panic – and the striking, persuasive thing was that he didn't care; he had stopped caring what I felt about anything: that was the point.
  • (17) Ranging from standard clown routines (there’s one where they’re competing to wear the same dress) to satirical sketches (an advertising meeting harvesting ideas from a gibbering idiot), Libby Northedge and Nina Smith’s unflinching brand of buffoonery sometimes draws too deeply on our indulgence.
  • (18) The plain-speaking narrator observes how, in his reversed chronology, "the gibbering hippies and spaced-out fatsoes" who go to Vietnam "come back all clean and sane and fine, after a spell in the war".

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