jibing

Verb (1)

jibe (third-person singular simple present jibes, present participle jibing, simple past and past participle jibed)

1. (transitive) To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride, to mock, to taunt.
   • [Y]ou / Did pocket vp my Letters: and with taunts / Did gibe my Miſive out of audience.c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...

   Synonyms:

   flout, scoff, fleer, gird, jeer, scorn

2. (transitive) To say in a mocking or taunting manner.
   • Scarlett felt her heart begin its mad racing again and she clutched her hand against it unconsciously, as if she would squeeze it into submission. "Eavesdroppers often hear highly instructive things," jibed a memory.1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, chapter VI, in Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, published June 1944, →OCLC, part I, page 121

   Synonyms:

   lampoon, needle, badger, bam, barrack, brock, bullyrag, chiack, deride, fleer

3. (intransitive) To make a mocking remark or remarks; to jeer.
   • Why thats the way to choake a gibing ſpirrit, / Whoſe influence is begot of that looſe grace, / Which ſhallow laughing hearers giue to fooles, […]c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby...

   Synonyms:

   laugh at, scorn, gird, jeer, scoff, sneer

Verb (2)

jibe (third-person singular simple present jibes, present participle jibing, simple past and past participle jibed)

1. (Canada, US, informal, intransitive) To accord or agree.
   • That explanation doesn’t jibe with the facts.

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