gibber

Some of them may gibber at you, particularly if they're coming up.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2012

It's one of the novel's funniest scenes: the men gibber through a jungle – lost in space and out of their Edwardian gourds.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 11, 2010

And the ocean turned out to gibber rather than murmur.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 25, 2010

A kind of Greek chorus of Harlem harpies gibber, clown, and rummage about as if they were witnessing the fall of a discount house of Atreus.

From Time Magazine Archive

For a moment she stared incredulous, as if he had begun to gibber in an unknown tongue-"Stannis and Renly are fighting each other!"

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

Today, as Amanda in Private Lives, she whines, gibbers and snorts with all the grace of an untutored Eliza Doolittle.

From Time Magazine Archive

Or are we to assume that he gibbers?

From Pot-Boilers by Clive Bell

It grins, and gibbers, and utters its gibes, day and night.

From Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee by John Esten Cooke

Is it a Ghost that never clanks his chains, That never gibbers, and that bangs no door: But quietly and peacefully remains In calm possession of some upper floor?

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 14 1890 by Various

There is something in the notion, for it was a risky trip, And a spectre is a nuisance when he gibbers on board ship.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 1, 1890 by Various

In Puritan poems, the forest gibbered and howled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2016

Very quickly, soldiers began emerging with bizarre symptoms; they shuddered and gibbered or became unable to speak at all.

From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2016

And sometimes I have to remind myself that in addition to being Terry Gilliam the great director, Terry Gilliam the visionary, this is also Cardinal Fang, the one who gibbered about the Spanish Inquisition.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2014

Newman complained during his life time of the phantoms that "gibbered" instead of the real him.

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2010

His hands and feet threshed in the tangle of the wild grapevine, and he whimpered and gibbered as he tried to get up.

From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck

Wodehouse never exhausted the counterpoint between Bertie’s slangy gibbering and half-remembered literary allusions with Jeeves’ carefully modulated responses: “Very well, Jeeves, you agree with me that the situation is a lulu?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2025

Being a good host doesn’t mean you have to spend two hours gibbering in horror, being glared at by innocent people just trying to enjoy a nice meal.

From Slate ● Mar. 9, 2020

Hermes leads them, gibbering like bats, past various underworld landmarks, the white rock of Leukas, etc., and on their way they pass the δῆμον ὀνείρων, which Homer leaves undescribed and unexplained.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 17, 2018

The men who leer after Candy are truly fatuous primates, fit for little but gibbering at the moon.

From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2018

"You're lucky he's not been reduced to a gibbering imbecile."

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda