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Jibbing

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jib

2  [jib] verb (used without object), verb (used with object), jibbed, jib⋅bing, noun Nautical
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jibe 1 .
Also, jibb.

jib

3  [jib] verb, jibbed, jib⋅bing, noun Chiefly British
–verb (used without object)
1. to move restively sidewise or backward instead of forward, as an animal in harness; balk.
2. to balk at doing something; defer action; procrastinate.
–noun
3. a horse or other animal that jibs.
Origin:
1805–15; perh. special use of jib 2

Related forms:
jibber, noun

jibe

1  [jahyb] verb, jibed, jib⋅ing, noun Nautical
–verb (used without object)
1. to shift from one side to the other when running before the wind, as a fore-and-aft sail or its boom.
2. to alter course so that a fore-and-aft sail shifts in this manner.
–verb (used with object)
3. to cause to jibe.
–noun
4. the act of jibing.
Also, gibe, gybe, jib, jibb.

Origin:
1685–95; var. of gybe < D gijben, more commonly gijpen
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jib 2   (jĭb)   
intr.v.   jibbed, jib·bing, jibs
To stop short and turn restively from side to side; balk.

[Origin unknown.]
jib'ber n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Slang Dictionary
jibe [dʒɑɪb]

  1. in.
    to agree; to be in harmony. (See also track.) : Your story just doesn't jibe with the facts.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

jib 
"foresail of a ship," 1661, gibb, of uncertain origin, perhaps related to gibbet, from notion of a sail "hanging" from a masthead. Or perhaps from jib (v.) "shift a sail or boom" (1693), from Du. gijben, apparently related to gijk "boom or spar of a sailing ship." Said to indicate a ship's character to an observant sailor as a strange vessel approaches at sea; also nautical slang for "face," hence cut of his jib.

jibe 
"agree, fit," 1813, of unknown origin, perhaps a figurative extension of earlier jib (v.) "shift a sail or boom" (see jib). OED, however, suggests a phonetic variant of chime, as if meaning "to chime in with, to be in harmony."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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