A facetious or insulting remark; a jeer, a taunt.
He flung subtle jibes at her until she couldn’t bear to work with him any longer.
Uncertain; possibly from Old French giber (“to engage in horseplay; to play roughly in sport”). Compare English jib (“usually of a horse: to stop and refuse to go forward”), Old Norse geipa (“to talk ...
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To accord or agree.
That explanation doesn’t jibe with the facts.