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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
Please elaborate. I am getting confused trying to decipher what the two words mean. To make matters worse, it also depends whether the noun or the verb is supposed to be meant.
Please correct me, but this is what I come up with (not all definitions, but the confusing ones)
to jive as verb - is to insult someone
to jibe as verb - something agrees with something
the jibe as noun - alternate spelling of gibe
the gibe as noun - insulting or critical remark
So jive (verb) is practically the same as jibe (noun).
BUT jibe (verb) has nothing to do with jibe (noun).
What am I missing? (other than having english as secondary language). |
Jibe = matches, agrees.
Jive = swing, a type of music from the '30s, then in '60s America jive became a way of street talking, then morphed into meaning talking bs.
Correct use: "What you're saying jibes with my memory of the event, we agree."
Using instead "... jives with ...." in the above is nonsensical.
(I didn't know jibe = gibe, didn't even know gibe was a word, thanks for educating me, for scrabble if nothing else.)