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| to chew (food) slowly and thoroughly. |
| to introduce subtleties into or argue subtly about. |
| gibber1 (ˈdʒɪbə) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to utter rapidly and unintelligibly; prattle |
| 2. | (intr) (of monkeys and related animals) to make characteristic chattering sounds |
| —n | |
| 3. | a less common word for gibberish |
| [C17: of imitative origin] | |
gibber
rock- and pebble-littered area of arid or semi-arid country in Australia. The rocks are generally angular fragments formed from broken up duricrust, usually silcrete, a hardened crust of soil cemented by silica (SiO2). The gravel cover may be only one rock fragment deep, or it may consist of several layers buried in fine-grained material that is thought to have been blown in. A gibber is generally considered a result of mechanical weathering because silica is almost inert to chemical weathering.
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