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wibbling

wibbling is the present participle and gerund of wibble.

Meaning of wibble

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

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Questions about wibbling

What is wibbling the present participle and gerund of?
Wibbling is the present participle and gerund of wibble.

Words near wibbling in the dictionary

  1. wibble-wobbling
  2. wibbled
  3. wibbles
  4. wibblier
  5. wibbliest
  6. wibbling
  7. wibbly
  8. wibbly-wobbly
  9. Wible
  10. Wibles
  11. WIBNI

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