Words that rhyme with bibber

n 1: seed vessel having hooks or prickles [syn: bur, burr] 2: small bit used in dentistry or surgery [syn: bur, burr] v 1: remove the burrs from [syn: bur, burr]

adj 1: having brief brilliant points or flashes of light; "bugle beads all aglitter"; "glinting eyes"; "glinting water"; "his glittering eyes were cold and malevolent"; "shop window full of glittering Christmas trees"; "glittery costume jewelry"; "scintillant mica"; "the scintillating stars"; "a dress with sparkly sequins"; "`glistering' is an archaic term" [syn: aglitter(p), coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly]

n 1: a quarrel about petty points [syn: bicker, bickering, spat, tiff, squabble, pettifoggery, fuss] v 1: argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies" [syn: quibble, niggle, pettifog, bicker, squabble, brabble]

n 1: the basic unit of money in Ethiopia; equal to 100 cents 2: sound of something in rapid motion; "whir of a bird's wings"; "the whir of the propellers" [syn: whir, whirr, whirring, birr] v 1: make a soft swishing sound; "the motor whirred"; "the car engine purred" [syn: whizz, whiz, whirr, whir, birr, purr]

adv 1: extremely and sharply; "it was bitterly cold"; "bitter cold" [syn: piercingly, bitterly, bitingly, bitter] adj 1: marked by strong resentment or cynicism; "an acrimonious dispute"; "bitter about the divorce" [syn: acrimonious, bitter] 2: very difficult to accept or bear; "the bitter truth"; "a bitter sorrow" 3: harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics"; "a sulfurous denunciation"; "a vitriolic critique" [syn: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic] 4: expressive of severe grief or regret; "shed bitter tears" 5: proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity; "a bitter struggle"; "bitter enemies" 6: causing a sharp and acrid taste experience;"quinine is bitter" 7: causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold; "bitter cold"; "a biting wind" [syn: biting, bitter] n 1: English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft) 2: the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth [syn: bitter, bitterness] 3: the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste [syn: bitterness, bitter] v 1: make bitter

n 1: one who reveals confidential information in return for money [syn: informer, betrayer, rat, squealer, blabber] v 1: speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly [syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle- tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble]

n 1: someone who humbles himself as a sign of respect; who behaves as if he had no self-respect [syn: apple polisher, bootlicker, fawner, groveller, groveler, truckler]

n 1: seed vessel having hooks or prickles [syn: bur, burr] 2: rough projection left on a workpiece after drilling or cutting 3: United States politician who served as vice president under Jefferson; he mortally wounded his political rival Alexander Hamilton in a duel and fled south (1756-1836) [syn: Burr, Aaron Burr] 4: rotary file for smoothing rough edges left on a workpiece 5: small bit used in dentistry or surgery [syn: bur, burr] v 1: remove the burrs from [syn: bur, burr]

n 1: small tropical flea; the fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humans [syn: chigoe, chigger, chigoe flea, Tunga penetrans] 2: larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation [syn: harvest mite, chigger, jigger, redbug]

adj 1: having a cheerful, lively, and self-confident air; "looking chipper, like a man...diverted by his own wit"- Frances G. Patton; "life that is gay, brisk, and debonair"- H.M.Reynolds; "walked with a jaunty step"; "a jaunty optimist" [syn: chipper, debonair, debonaire, jaunty]

n 1: (electronics) a nonlinear electronic circuit whose output is limited in amplitude; used to limit the instantaneous amplitude of a waveform (to clip off the peaks of a waveform); "a limiter introduces amplitude distortion" [syn: limiter, clipper] 2: a fast sailing ship used in former times [syn: clipper, clipper ship] 3: shears for cutting grass or shrubbery (often used in the plural) 4: scissors for cutting hair or finger nails (often used in the plural)

v 1: deem to be; "She views this quite differently from me"; "I consider her to be shallow"; "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do" [syn: see, consider, reckon, view, regard] 2: give careful consideration to; "consider the possibility of moving" [syn: study, consider] 3: take into consideration for exemplifying purposes; "Take the case of China"; "Consider the following case" [syn: consider, take, deal, look at] 4: show consideration for; take into account; "You must consider her age"; "The judge considered the offender's youth and was lenient" [syn: consider, count, weigh] 5: think about carefully; weigh; "They considered the possibility of a strike"; "Turn the proposal over in your mind" [syn: consider, debate, moot, turn over, deliberate] 6: judge or regard; look upon; judge; "I think he is very smart"; "I believe her to be very smart"; "I think that he is her boyfriend"; "The racist conceives such people to be inferior" [syn: think, believe, consider, conceive] 7: look at attentively [syn: regard, consider] 8: look at carefully; study mentally; "view a problem" [syn: view, consider, look at] 9: regard or treat with consideration, respect, and esteem; "Please consider your family"

n 1: a regional term for `creature' (especially for domestic animals)

v 1: negotiate the terms of an exchange; "We bargained for a beautiful rug in the bazaar" [syn: dicker, bargain]

n 1: a laborer who digs 2: a machine for excavating [syn: power shovel, excavator, digger, shovel]

n 1: a ladle that has a cup with a long handle 2: a cluster of seven stars in Ursa Minor; at the end of the dipper's handle is Polaris [syn: Little Dipper, Dipper] 3: a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major [syn: Big Dipper, Dipper, Plough, Charles's Wain, Wain, Wagon] 4: small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage [syn: bufflehead, butterball, dipper, Bucephela albeola] 5: small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast- flowing streams and feeds along the bottom [syn: water ouzel, dipper]

n 1: someone who tells lies [syn: storyteller, fibber, fabricator]

adj 1: improved in health or physical condition [syn: fitter, healthier] n 1: someone who fits a garment to a particular person

n 1: a momentary flash of light [syn: flicker, spark, glint] 2: North American woodpecker 3: the act of moving back and forth [syn: waver, flutter, flicker] v 1: move back and forth very rapidly; "the candle flickered" [syn: flicker, waver, flitter, flutter, quiver] 2: shine unsteadily; "The candle flickered" [syn: flicker, flick] 3: flash intermittently; "The lights flicked on and off" [syn: flicker, flick]

n 1: a shoe for swimming; the paddle-like front is an aid in swimming (especially underwater) [syn: flipper, fin] 2: the flat broad limb of aquatic animals specialized for swimming

v 1: move back and forth very rapidly; "the candle flickered" [syn: flicker, waver, flitter, flutter, quiver]

n 1: small quantity of fried batter containing fruit or meat or vegetables v 1: spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance" [syn: fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away]

n 1: unintelligible talking [syn: gibberish, gibber] v 1: speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly [syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle- tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble] 2: chatter inarticulately; of monkeys

n 1: the quality of shining with a bright reflected light [syn: glitter, glister, glisten, scintillation, sparkle] 2: the occurrence of a small flash or spark [syn: glitter, sparkle, coruscation] v 1: be shiny, as if wet; "His eyes were glistening" [syn: glitter, glisten, glint, gleam, shine]

n 1: a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey [syn: shot glass, jigger, pony] 2: any small mast on a sailing vessel; especially the mizzenmast of a yawl [syn: jiggermast, jigger] 3: larval mite that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings causing intense irritation [syn: harvest mite, chigger, jigger, redbug]

n 1: small rapid variations in a waveform resulting from fluctuations in the voltage supply or mechanical vibrations or other sources 2: a small irregular movement

n 1: a player who kicks the football

n 1: salted and smoked herring [syn: kipper, kippered herring]

n 1: an alcoholic beverage that is distilled rather than fermented [syn: liquor, spirits, booze, hard drink, hard liquor, John Barleycorn, strong drink] 2: a liquid substance that is a solution (or emulsion or suspension) used or obtained in an industrial process; "waste liquors" 3: the liquid in which vegetables or meat have be cooked [syn: liquor, pot liquor, pot likker]

n 1: the offspring at one birth of a multiparous mammal 2: rubbish carelessly dropped or left about (especially in public places) 3: conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers 4: material used to provide a bed for animals [syn: bedding material, bedding, litter] v 1: strew; "Cigar butts littered the ground" 2: make a place messy by strewing garbage around 3: give birth to a litter of animals

n 1: a young person of either sex; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster" [syn: child, kid, youngster, minor, shaver, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, fry, nestling] 2: a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods [syn: claw, chela, nipper, pincer]

n 1: a person who chooses or selects out [syn: picker, chooser, selector] 2: someone who gathers crops or fruits etc.

n 1: (baseball) the person who does the pitching; "our pitcher has a sore arm" [syn: pitcher, hurler, twirler] 2: an open vessel with a handle and a spout for pouring [syn: pitcher, ewer] 3: the quantity contained in a pitcher [syn: pitcher, pitcherful] 4: (botany) a leaf that that is modified in such a way as to resemble a pitcher or ewer 5: the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit; "he has played every position except pitcher"; "they have a southpaw on the mound" [syn: pitcher, mound]

n 1: a person who gives up too easily

n 1: someone who rigs ships 2: a long slender pointed sable brush used by artists [syn: rigger, rigger brush] 3: someone who works on an oil rig [syn: rigger, oil rigger] 4: a sailing vessel with a specified rig; "a square rigger"

n 1: someone who ships goods 2: a company in the business of shipping freight

n 1: a drinker who sips

n 1: Dutch astronomer who calculated the size of the universe and suggested that it is expanding (1872-1934) [syn: Sitter, Willem de Sitter] 2: an organism (person or animal) that sits [ant: stander] 3: a person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home [syn: babysitter, baby-sitter, sitter] 4: a person who poses for a painter or sculptor [syn: artist's model, sitter] 5: a domestic hen ready to brood [syn: brood hen, broody, broody hen, setting hen, sitter]

n 1: a student who fails to attend classes 2: an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship [syn: master, captain, sea captain, skipper] 3: the naval officer in command of a military ship [syn: captain, skipper] v 1: work as the skipper on a vessel

v 1: to move about or proceed hurriedly; "so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground" [syn: scurry, scamper, skitter, scuttle] 2: glide easily along a surface 3: cause to skip over a surface; "Skip a stone across the pond" [syn: skim, skip, skitter] 4: twitch the hook of a fishing line through or along the surface of water

n 1: a macintosh made from cotton fabric treated with oil and pigment to make it waterproof [syn: oilskin, slicker] 2: a person with good manners and stylish clothing 3: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true [syn: deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker]

n 1: low footwear that can be slipped on and off easily; usually worn indoors [syn: slipper, carpet slipper] 2: a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction [syn: skidder, slider, slipper]

n 1: a disrespectful laugh [syn: snicker, snort, snigger] v 1: laugh quietly [syn: snicker, snigger]

n 1: a disrespectful laugh [syn: snicker, snort, snigger] v 1: laugh quietly [syn: snicker, snigger]

n 1: a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf [syn: spine, thorn, prickle, pricker, sticker, spikelet] 2: an adhesive label [syn: gummed label, sticker, paster] 3: a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem [syn: poser, stumper, toughie, sticker] 4: a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing [syn: dagger, sticker]

n 1: a chemical compound used to remove paint or varnish 2: a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books [syn: stripper, stemmer, sprigger] 3: a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music [syn: stripper, striptease artist, striptease, stripteaser, exotic dancer, ecdysiast, peeler] 4: an oil well whose production has declined to less than ten barrels a day [syn: stripper well, stripper]

n 1: the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body; "he stood still, his heart thumping wildly" [syn: heart, pump, ticker] 2: a small portable timepiece [syn: watch, ticker] 3: a character printer that automatically prints stock quotations on ticker tape [syn: ticker, stock ticker]

n 1: a person who leaves a tip; "a generous tipper" 2: truck whose contents can be emptied without handling; the front end of the platform can be pneumatically raised so that the load is discharged by gravity [syn: dump truck, dumper, tipper truck, tipper lorry, tip truck, tipper]

n 1: a nervous restrained laugh v 1: laugh nervously; "The girls giggled when the rock star came into the classroom" [syn: giggle, titter]

n 1: lever that activates the firing mechanism of a gun [syn: gun trigger, trigger] 2: a device that activates or releases or causes something to happen 3: an act that sets in motion some course of events [syn: trigger, induction, initiation] v 1: put in motion or move to act; "trigger a reaction"; "actuate the circuits" [syn: trip, actuate, trigger, activate, set off, spark off, spark, trigger off, touch off] 2: release or pull the trigger on; "Trigger a gun"

n 1: (slang) someone who has taken a psychedelic drug and is undergoing hallucinations 2: a walker or runner who trips and almost falls [syn: stumbler, tripper] 3: a tourist who is visiting sights of interest [syn: sightseer, excursionist, tripper, rubberneck] 4: a catch mechanism that acts as a switch; "the pressure activates the tripper and releases the water" [syn: tripper, trip]

n 1: a series of chirps [syn: chirrup, twitter] v 1: make high-pitched sounds, as of birds [syn: chitter, twitter]

n 1: a Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman 2: (Episcopal Church) a clergyman in charge of a chapel 3: (Church of England) a clergyman appointed to act as priest of a parish

n 1: forceful exertion; "he plays tennis with great energy"; "he's full of zip" [syn: energy, vigor, vigour, zip] 2: active strength of body or mind [syn: vigor, vigour, dynamism, heartiness] 3: an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing); "his writing conveys great energy"; "a remarkable muscularity of style" [syn: energy, muscularity, vigor, vigour, vim]

n 1: slender flexible branches or twigs (especially of willow or some canes); used for wickerwork 2: work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches) [syn: wicker, wickerwork, caning]

n 1: a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab [syn: slide fastener, zip, zipper, zip fastener] v 1: close with a zipper; "Zip up your jacket--it's cold" [syn: zip up, zipper, zip] [ant: unzip]

v 1: make high-pitched sounds, as of birds [syn: chitter, twitter]

n 1: a supporter of feminism [syn: feminist, women's rightist, women's liberationist, libber]

n 1: the characteristic sounds made by a horse [syn: neigh, nicker, whicker, whinny] v 1: make a characteristic sound, of a horse [syn: neigh, nicker, whicker, whinny]

n 1: something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters" [syn: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness] 2: the quality of being valid and rigorous [syn: cogency, validity, rigor, rigour] 3: excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp" [syn: severity, severeness, harshness, rigor, rigour, rigorousness, rigourousness, inclemency, hardness, stiffness]

n 1: a person who spits (ejects saliva or phlegm from the mouth) [syn: spitter, expectorator] 2: an illegal pitch in which a foreign substance (spit or Vaseline) is applied to the ball by the pitcher before he throws it [syn: spitball, spitter]

n 1: forceful exertion; "he plays tennis with great energy"; "he's full of zip" [syn: energy, vigor, vigour, zip] 2: active strength of body or mind [syn: vigor, vigour, dynamism, heartiness] 3: an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing); "his writing conveys great energy"; "a remarkable muscularity of style" [syn: energy, muscularity, vigor, vigour, vim]

n 1: a wooden hand tool with a pointed end; used to make holes in the ground for planting seeds or bulbs [syn: dibble, dibber]