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wibble

UK/ˈwɪbəl/

wibble noun: meaningless or content-free chatter in a discussion; drivel, babble.

Noun

wibble (uncountable)

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

Verb (1)

wibble (third-person singular simple present wibbles, present participle wibbling, simple past and past participle wibbled)

  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)

Verb (2)

wibble (third-person singular simple present wibbles, present participle wibbling, simple past and past participle wibbled)

  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...2019 June, Suzanne Nelson, A Tale Magnolious, New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 36

Synonyms of wibble

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Forms of wibble

third-person singular presentwibbles
present participlewibbling
past participlewibbled
pastwibbled

Origin of wibble

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

See wobble.

Words that rhyme with wibble

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Questions about wibble

What does wibble mean?
Wibble means meaningless or content-free chatter in a discussion; drivel, babble.
What part of speech is wibble?
Wibble can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce wibble?
Wibble is pronounced /ˈwɪbəl/ (UK).

Words near wibble in the dictionary

  1. WIAs
  2. Wiater
  3. Wiaters
  4. Wibaux
  5. Wibaux County
  6. wibble
  7. wibble-wobble
  8. wibble-wobbled
  9. wibble-wobbles
  10. wibble-wobbling
  11. wibbled

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