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  jibe    gybe  

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
jibe1 (also gibe)
▶noun an insulting or mocking remark. ▶verb make jibes.
– origin C16: perh. from OFr. giber ‘handle roughly’ (in mod. dial. ‘kick’); cf. jib2.



Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
jibe2
▶verb & noun US variant of gybe.



Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
jibe3
▶verb N. Amer. informal be in accordance; agree.
– origin C19: of unknown origin.



Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
gybe /dʒʌɪb/ (US jibe) Sailing
▶verb change course by swinging the sail across a following wind.

■ (of a sail or boom) swing across the wind.

▶noun an act of gybing.
– origin C17: from obs. Du. gijben.



'jibe' also found in these Oxford entries:
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