http://wordie.org/words/wibble Comments for the word 'Wibble' http://wordie.org http://wordie.org/words/wibble#comments /verb/. - the state of becoming emotionally overwhelmed, often followed by a silence because the individual is unable to find the words to speak properly Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:41:13 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/wibble#comments http://wordie.org/words/wibble#comments wibble<br /><br />{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).<br /><br />The ancestral sense of this word is reported to have been "My brain is packing it in now. I give up. _Tilt! Tilt! Tilt!_" Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:40:20 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/wibble#comments