Sheldon then says, "Do you know why they call it jibber-jabber?" and then Penny says, "Oh my God now you're going to jibber-jabber about jibber-jabber!" The information is never revealed by Sheldon so that is the reason so many people have been looking up the meaning and looking for how the phrase came into being. Just to offer a reason for so many google hits showing up on The Big Bang Theory episode "The Engagement Reaction" Penny and Sheldon are having a conversation in the laundry room when she implies that he engages in "jibber-jabber" frequently.BenediktWildenhain ( talk) 11:02, 29 July 2011 (UTC) Reply T without this article mentioning the term is just confusing. I would suggest to restore the previous article. T", but currently there is no reference in the article about Mr. This article had been merged with "Mr.After all, this is a watershed in the development of English semantics-we better get it right.- hmcnally 23:58, 7 October 2006 (UTC) Reply T Wikipedia article should interwiki link to it. T really coin this compound phrase that has fallen into the American vernacular? Did he really spell it "jibber" rather than gibber, or is this just a common transcription of his spoken words? Maybe this article belongs in Wiktionary rather than here, and the Mr. They both mean about the same thing: hurried, unintelligible speech-gibber having a connotation of foolishness. Gibber is a real word (verb and noun, according to m-w.com) in the English language, as is jabber (verb only).T - please go nuts.- Heavy Man 06:29, 22 August 2006 (UTC) Reply Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on. What are you jibber-jabbering about See more words with the same meaning: to say, speak, talk. If anyone wants to expand this article to help it remain seperate from Mr. verb - intransitive to make incessant, idle talk. T? He's not the only person to use the phrase, he just coined it. Merge? Why should this be merged with Mr.I suggest you seek a government grant to help develop this new linguistic nuance.- Heavy Man 05:37, 19 July 2006 (UTC) Reply 'Jibber-jabber' as an adverb for 'impressive'? A synonym for 'very'? Sir, your's may be the first documented case.Actually a recent check returned 774,000 hits in a google search. Xyzzyplugh 14:31, 7 July 2006 (UTC) Reply The period is missing, I’m guessing, because on cellphone screens you usually have to switch between letter display and numeral/punctuation display, so it’s easier just to write things without punctuation.I wanted to propose this for deletion, but damned if the phrase doesn't have 270,000 hits in a google search. ish.” for “different issue,” for example). Kirsten Shute, a millennial herself, wrote in with an excellent suggestion: “My unscientific guess for some of the other abbreevz (sorry) is that they’re not that different from note form where a period is put after the shortened word (“dif. In my previous column, I discussed the shortened form of English that millennials in the United States are now creating - “totesing,” for short. 3 (Nautical) variant of gybe (C19: of unknown origin) jibber n. The word may be an adaptation of “flick ” it may be a combination of two other terms, “sleek” and “fly” (an an adjective, “fly” also means cool) or it may have been invented out of thin air in the early years of the 21st century. 2 (of an animal) to stop short and refuse to go forwards the horse jibbed at the jump. The origins of “fleek” are mysterious, with much debate on the Internet leading to absolutely no consensus. They might also be described as “on point:” perfect, gorgeous, exact, cool and so on. Article contentįor reasons that I’m poorly equipped to understand, the phrase “on fleek” often refers to women’s eyebrows. Who cares what the tabloids say about us It's all just jibber-jabber anyway. His explanation is just jibber-jabber and doesn't answer the question at all. jibber-jabber slang Nonsense or foolishness. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Jibber-jabber - Idioms by The Free Dictionary jibber-jabber Also found in: Dictionary, Wikipedia. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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