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Jive/jibe

Posted by ESC on January 08, 2008

In Reply to: Jive/jibe posted by Linda on January 08, 2008

: Is the phrase that "they didn't jive", or "they didn't jibe"?

Jibe -- harmonize, agree, get along. To be in accord with.

"Dictionary of American Regional English," Volume III by Frederic G. Cassidy and Joan Houston Hall (1996, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., and London, England). I-O. Page 128.

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