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Definition of "jibb" []

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "jibb" in a sentence
  • "Miss Grizzy Oldbuck was sometimes apt to jibb when he pulled the reins too tight."
  • "And ill it doth bcfeem your holinefs To feparate the hufband and the wife. jibb."
  • "Some habits of hasty irritation he had contracted, partly, it was said in the borough of Fairport, from an early disappointment in love in virtue of which he had commenced misogynist, as he called it, but yet more by the obsequious attention paid to him by his maiden sister and his orphan niece, whom he had trained to consider him as the greatest man upon earth, and whom he used to boast of as the only women he had ever seen who were well broke in and bitted to obedience; though, it must be owned, Miss Grizzy Oldbuck was sometimes apt to _jibb_ when he pulled the reins too tight."