Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A wimble. Tufts's Glossary of Thieves' Jargon(1798).
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- verb US, informal To be
overwhelmed by emotion and take on achildish expression with aquivering lips and chin. - noun UK, slang
Meaningless or content-freechatter in a discussion;drivel ,babble . - noun UK, computing Used as the name of a
metasyntactic variable . - verb UK, Internet slang To make meaningless comments.
Etymologies
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You can also use the words "google" (google), dict (dictionary. com), "wp" (wikipedia), and quote (stock market prices). slang wibble wp fourier series google something by Physics Dave Dec 1, 2004 share this comments \% s
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You can also use the words "google" (google), dict (dictionary. com), "wp" (wikipedia), and quote (stock market prices). slang wibble wp fourier series google something by Physics Dave Dec 1, 2004 share this comments \% s
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You can also use the words "google" (google), dict (dictionary. com), "wp" (wikipedia), and quote (stock market prices). slang wibble wp fourier series google something by Physics Dave Dec 1, 2004 share this comments \% s
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You can also use the words "google" (google), dict (dictionary. com), "wp" (wikipedia), and quote (stock market prices). slang wibble wp fourier series google something by Physics Dave Dec 1, 2004 share this comments \% s
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You can also use the words "google" (google), dict (dictionary. com), "wp" (wikipedia), and quote (stock market prices). slang wibble wp fourier series google something by Physics Dave Dec 1, 2004 share this comments \% s
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You can also use the words "google" (google), dict (dictionary. com), "wp" (wikipedia), and quote (stock market prices). slang wibble wp fourier series google something by Physics Dave Dec 1, 2004 share this comments \% s
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You can also use the words "google" (google), dict (dictionary. com), "wp" (wikipedia), and quote (stock market prices). slang wibble wp fourier series google something by Physics Dave Dec 1, 2004 share this comments \% s
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You can also use the words "google" (google), dict (dictionary. com), "wp" (wikipedia), and quote (stock market prices). slang wibble wp fourier series google something by Physics Dave Dec 1, 2004 share this comments \% s
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You can also use the words "google" (google), dict (dictionary. com), "wp" (wikipedia), and quote (stock market prices). slang wibble wp fourier series google something by Physics Dave Dec 1, 2004 share this comments \% s
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You can also use the words "google" (google), dict (dictionary. com), "wp" (wikipedia), and quote (stock market prices). slang wibble wp fourier series google something by Physics Dave Dec 1, 2004 share this comments \% s
sionnach commented on the word wibble
wibble
UK, perh. originally from the first "Roger Irrelevant" strip in "VIZ" comics 1. n.,v. Commonly used to describe chatter, content-free remarks or other essentially meaningless contributions to threads in newsgroups. "Oh, rspence is wibbling again". 2. UK IRC An explicit on-line no-op equivalent to humma. 3. One of the preferred metasyntactic variables in the UK, forming a series with `wobble', `wubble', and `flob' (attributed to the hilarious historical comedy "Blackadder"). 4. A pronounciation of the letters "www", as seen in URLs; i.e., www.foo.com may be pronounced "wibble dot foo dot com" (compare dub dub dub).
The ancestral sense of this word is reported to have been "My brain is packing it in now. I give up. _Tilt! Tilt! Tilt!_"
November 28, 2007