Gab vs. Gib — What's the Difference?

To talk idly or incessantly, as about trivial matters.

A plain or notched, often wedge-shaped piece of wood or metal designed to hold parts of a machine or structure in place or provide a bearing surface, usually adjusted by a screw or key.

Idle talk; chatter.

A male cat, especially a castrated one.

Idle chatter.

To fasten with a gib.

The mouth or gob.

A bolt or wedge made from wood or metal used for holding a machine part in place.

One of the open-forked ends of rods controlling reversing in early steam engines.

A castrated male cat or ferret.

To jest; to tell lies in jest; exaggerate; lie.

A male cat; a tomcat.

(intransitive) To talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects.

A hooked prolongation on the lower jaw of a male salmon or trout.

To speak or tell falsely.

(video games) Miscellaneous pieces of a fragged character, most often in first-person shooters.

The hook on the end of an eccentric rod opposite the strap. See. Illust. of Eccentric.

(New Zealand) plasterboard.

The mouth; hence, idle prate; chatter; unmeaning talk; loquaciousness.

To fasten in place with a gib.

To deceive; to lie.

To blast an enemy or opponent into gibs.

To talk idly; to prate; to chatter.

(New Zealand) To install plasterboard.

Light informal conversation for social occasions

A male cat; a tomcat.

A piece or slip of metal or wood, notched or otherwise, in a machine or structure, to hold other parts in place or bind them together, or to afford a bearing surface; - usually held or adjusted by means of a wedge, key, or screw.

To act like a cat.

To secure or fasten with a gib, or gibs; to provide with a gib, or gibs.

A castrated tomcat