Good-natured jibe

[Benjamin Barrett]

The AHD (https://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/gibe) says that a jibe/gibe has only a bad meaning. Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jibe) gives it a little more leeway, allowing for facetiousness.

Yet "good-natured jibe" gets 83K hits on Google. I don't take that to be derisive or facetious.

Benjamin Barrett
Formerly of Seattle, WA

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