Dictionary

wibble en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /ˈwɪbəl/ (UK)
• (US) audio

Etymology

Unclear; possibly originates in the British Roger Irrelevant comic strip, then popularised by Your Sinclair magazine and the comedy Blackadder.

Meanings

1. (UK, slang, uncountable) Meaningless or content-free chatter in a discussion; drivel, babble.

Synonyms

blather · prattle · doublespeak · tripe · crock of shit · malarkey · trittle trattle · shit · yatter · apple grease · chatter · bunkum · pie in the sky · fudge · bull · baragouin · rhubarb · lallation · twaddle · rhubarb rhubarb · horse puckey · gabble · BS · bullcrap · jargon · humbug · bullshit · guff · stuff · bollocks · word salad · tosh · Gallophone · macaroni · stuff and nonsense · blah · blah-blah · wass · flummery · blather · eyewash · nertz · put-on · horse hockey · chinwag · bushwah · flapdoodle · blah-blah-blah · blab · ruse · hooey · claptrap · tattle · footle · horseshit · bilgewater · yackety-yak · tush · mardle · gobbledygook · blathering · junk · manure · crap · tommy-rot · cobblers · clepe · twaddle · gup · blatherskite · fuckery · pigswill · flim-flam · yap · scuttlebutt · bullspeak · bavardage · banana oil · bosh · piffle · waffle · poppycock · crock · natter · rigmarole · hocus-pocus · mumbo jumbo · shite · jibber-jabber · Irish bull · dribble · santorum · garble · balls · bafflegab · double talk · blabbing · codswallop · whiff-whaff · bibble-babble · horsefeathers · chit-chat · jive · fiddle-faddle · foolishness · flizz · batcrap · small talk · all my eye · horse piss · prattle · skimble-skamble · fuckry · bunk · hogwash · framis · all my eye and Betty Martin · gossip · gibber · hot air · bulldust · gash · rubbish · double Dutch · horse cock · hoax · balderdash · nonsense · galimatias · meaninglessness · palaver · babble · baloney · jimjam · applesauce · absurdity · bull feathers · batshit · garbage · gibberish · Greek · squit · clamjamfrey · Bandini · jabberwocky · claver · rot · prate · hokum · bobbins · moonshine · blabber · drivel · trash · folderol · jabber

wibble en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /ˈwɪbəl/ (UK)
• (US) audio

Etymology

Unclear; possibly originates in the British Roger Irrelevant comic strip, then popularised by Your Sinclair magazine and the comedy Blackadder.

Meanings

1. (UK, slang) To make meaningless comments.
   • Do you remember at school how you'd always get double geography last thing on a Friday afternoon? There's you and all these kids who are only interested in the weekend and each other, and standing in front of them is some old guy with a beard and a CND badge wibbling on about water tables. 2016, Richard Smith, Seduced and Abandoned: Essays on Gay Men and Popular Music (page 32)

Forms

wibble en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• /ˈwɪbəl/ (UK)
• (US) audio

Etymology

See wobble.

Meanings

1. (ambitransitive) To wobble.
   • Now his fingertips were tapping in addition to his toe-bouncing, until soon his entire body was wibbling in jumping-bean fashion. “Old Mag, you say?” He peered around Nitty at Mag, and Mag took the opportunity to inspect his mask and goggles with her trunk. The boy quit wibbling, stood stock-still, and gulped. 2019 June, Suzanne Nelson, A Tale Magnolious, New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 36:

Forms

Relateds

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