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Definition of Jibes
1. jibe [v] - See also: jibe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jibes
Literary usage of Jibes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journalistic London: Being a Series of Sketches of Famous Pens and Papers of by Joseph Hatton (1882)
"... Change of 1880—The Gin-and-Water Bohemia of Former Days—Lord Palmerston's
Defence of Mr. Delane—Political jibes at leading Journals—Lord Beaconsfield's ..."
2. The Demos in Council: Or 'Bijah in Pandemonium: Being a Sweep of the Lyre by William Sullivan (1799)
"... is fretful and fore ; While their jeers, and their jibes, they fo tauntingly
dafk. ... jibes ..."
3. A Glimpse of Old Mexico: Being the Observations and Reflections of a by James Hepburn Wilkins (1901)
"... almost forty years ago, when I went to school in a Little Lord Fauntleroy suit
of black velvet and the jibes and jeers I suffered with a breaking heart ..."
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