jibe

(Englisch)

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/d͡ʒaɪb/
Etymologie (Englisch)

In summary

Uncertain; possibly from Old French giber (“to engage in horseplay; to play roughly in sport”). Compare English jib (“usually of a horse: to stop and refuse to go forward”), Old Norse geipa (“to talk nonsense”). The noun is derived from the verb.

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