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# gibe

«gibe» in Mova's school dictionary: **a mocking remark, meant to hurt someone's feelings or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (gibe, gibes)

### meaning for a pupil

A gibe is a mocking remark, meant to hurt someone's feelings or make them look foolish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gibe/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a bully throws gibes at a shy boy, and the boy feels small

### examples

- He ignored the gibes of the other boys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gibe/#x1)
- Her cruel gibes made him cry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gibe/#x2)
- The king laughed at the gibe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gibe/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gibe» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gibe/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.