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wibble, v.
Brit. |ˈwɪbl|, U.S. |ˈwɪb(ə)l|
[Alteration of wobble v. Compare earlier wibble-wobble n. In sense 2 perhaps partly after drivel v., witter v.2, gabble v., etc.]
1. intr. To wobble; freq. in wibble and wobble. Cf. wibble-wobble n.
1871L. W. M. Lockhart Fair to See I. ii. 49 The ample round red face, which wibbled and wobbled in its billowy fatness. 1987T. Janowitz Cannibal in Manhattan xix. 139 The way he sawed away at the popular air, his chin wibbling over the edge of his violin, it was certainly something. 1994Ontario Out of Doors Sept. 83/3 No one holds a rifle absolutely steady. Everyone wibbles and wobbles.
2. intr. Brit. slang. To speak or write, especially at great length, without saying anything important; to witter or waffle; to talk drivel. Freq. with on. Also trans. with direct speech as object.
[1989R. Curtis & B. Elton Blackadder goes Forth in R. Curtis et al. Black-Adder (1998) Blackadder. We tell HQ that I have gone insane and I will be invalided back to Blighty before you can say ‘wibble’, a poor gormless idiot... Go on—ask me some simple questions. Baldrick. What is your name? Blackadder. Wibble.] 1994Independent 5 Apr. 24/3 There's a pause [in the game] while an ancient sage with a racoon on his chin wibbles on about the impossibility of screens to come..and then it's back for an even more hellish melée with faster, larger and trickier opponents. 1996ikon Jan.–Feb. 42/1 ‘I am a licence fee-funded radio station..’ wibbles Matthew Bannister, the controller who killed Smashie and Nicey and deliberately lost Radio 1 five million listeners. 1999S. Stewart Sharking xi. 185 ‘It used to be the same down the Ministry’, I wibbled. |
