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Gibbles are the surprisingly loud cries of night-migrating geese. One 19th-century source links this specifically to spring, defining the term as “birds that make a great noise in the air on spring evenings.”
The term is actually derived from “Gabriel-ratchets” (named after the archangel Gabriel, who was believed to blow a trumpet on Judgment Day), and comes from even earlier, more superstitious times, when people believed that the sounds of migrating wild geese were actually, Loot a supernatural pack of hounds that roamed the night sky in search of the souls of the recently deceased.
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