gibe

/ˈjīb/

perhaps from Middle French giber to shake, handle roughly

verb

  1. to utter taunting words

  2. to deride or tease with taunting words

scoff jeer gibe fleer sneer flout mean to show one's contempt in derision or mockery. scoff stresses insolence, disrespect, or incredulity as motivating the derision. jeer suggests a coarser more undiscriminating derision.

noun

  1. a taunting remark

… Rock made a gibe at the 50-year-old Pinkett Smith's shaved head …

verb

  1. to shift suddenly and forcibly from one side to the other —used of a fore-and-aft sail or its boom

  2. to change a vessel's course when sailing with the wind so that as the stern passes through the eye of the wind the boom swings to the opposite side

  3. to cause (a sail or vessel) to jibe