Other forms: gibes
A gibe is a mocking remark aimed at somebody. A cheap gibe, gibes from the crowd, a gibe about his height.
It is also spelled jibe, and jibe additionally means to agree, as in the accounts do not jibe, and to swing a sail across. The three uses being under two spellings makes this one of the more confusing small words in English.
1noungibeA mocking remark aimed at somebody.
“He ignored their gibes about his old car and drove off smiling.”
gibe is an insult.
Dutch
gijben
English
gybe
English, today
gibe
gybe Probably from Dutch gijben obsolete, gijpen; cognate with Danish gibbe, German gieben, giepen, Swedish gipa, gippa. The noun is derived from the verb; compare Dutch gijb obsolete, gijp (“act of gybing; a boom”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA