gerbil

• gerbille (dated)
• (verb): gerble
• jerbil (dated)

From French gerbille, from Latin gerbo, from Arabic جَرْبُوع (jarbūʕ) or يَرْبُوع (yarbūʕ, “jerboa”). Doublet of jerboa.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɝbl̩/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɜːbl̩/

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• Homophone: Dyirbal
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)bəl

gerbil (plural gerbils)

1. A member of one of several species of small, jumping, mouselike rodents of the subfamily Gerbillinae, native to Africa, India, and Southern Europe.

gerbil (third-person singular simple present gerbils, present participle gerbilling or gerbiling, simple past and past participle gerbilled or gerbiled)

1. (intransitive) To rotate inside a monowheel or similar apparatus due to sudden acceleration or braking.
2. (intransitive, slang) To insert a small animal (typically a gerbil, supposedly) into one's rectum (a sexual practice in urban myth).

• “gerbil”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• Bigler, Bilger, Gibler

Borrowed from French gerbille.

gerbil m (plural gerbili)

1. gerbil

• gerbill

gerbil c

1. a gerbil, especially a Mongolian gerbil (common as a pet)

   Synonym: ökenråtta

• gerbil in Svensk ordbok (SO)