1611. Cotgrave, Dictionarie. Jargon, gibridge fustian language, pedler’s French, a barbarus jangling. 1638. H. Shirley, Martyr’d Souldier, Act iii., Sc. 4. Feele my pulse once again and tell me, Doctor, Tell me in tearmes that I may understand,—I doe not love your gibberish,—tell me honestly Where the Cause lies, and give a Remedy. 1659. Torriano, Vocabolario, s.v. 1748. T. Dyche, Dictionary (5th ed.). Gibberish (s.) an unintelligible jargon, or confused way of speaking, used by the gipsies, beggars, etc., to disguise their wicked designs; also any discourse where words abound more than sense. 1748. Smollett, Rod. Random, ch. xxx. He repeated some gibberish which by the sound seemed to be Irish. 1817. Scott, Rob Roy, ch. viii. Since that d——d clerk of mine has taken his gibberish elsewhere. 1850. D. Jerrold, The Catspaw, Act i. Odds and ends ... writ down in such a kind of gibberish that I can’t make out one of ’em. 1858. G. Eliot, Mr. Gilfit’s Love Story, ch. iv. It’ll learn to speak summat better nor gibberish, an’ be brought up i’ the true religion. 1892. R. L. Stevenson and L. Osbourne, The Wrecker, p. 129. It was Fo’c’s’le Jack that piped and drawled his ungrammatical gibberish. Gibble-Gabble, subs. (colloquial).—Nonsense; gibberish (q.v.). [A reduplication of gabble (q.v.).] 1600. Dekker, Shoemaker’s Holiday, in wks. (1873) i., 21. Hee’s some uplandish workeman, hire him good master, That I may learne some gibble gabble, ’twill make us worke the faster. 1659. Torriano, Vocabolario, s.v. 1748. T. Dyche, Dictionary (5th ed.). Gibble-gabble (s), silly, foolish, idle talk. Gib-cat, subs. (old).—A tom-cat. [An abbreviation of Gilbert = O. Fr.: Tibert, the cat in the fable of Reynard the Fox.] 1360. Chaucer, Romaunt of the Rose, 6204 (Thibert le Cas is rendered by gibbe, our cat). 1598. Shakspeare, 1 Henry IV., Act i., Sc. 2. I am as melancholy as a gib-cat. 1614. Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, i., 1. Before I endure such another day with him, I’ll be drawn with a good gib-cat through the great pond at home. 1663. Rump Songs. ‘Rump Carbonadoed,’ ii., 71. As if they had less wit and grace than gib-cats. 1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Gibe, verb. (American).—To go well with; to be acceptable. See Gee. Gibel, verb. (thieves’).—To bring. 1837. Disraeli, Venetia, bk. i., ch. xiv. Gibel the chive, bring the knife. Gib-face, subs. (colloquial).—A heavy jowl; an ugly-mug (q.v.). Cf., to hang one’s gib. Giblets, subs. (common).—1. The intestines generally; the manifold (q.v.). Cf. trouble-giblets. 1864. Browning, Dramatis Personæ, ‘Flight of the Duchess.’ Is pumped up briskly through the main ventricle, And floats me genially round the giblets. 2. (colloquial).—A fat man; forty-guts (q.v.). Also Duke of Giblets.