According to the MIT dictionary server:
wibble UK, perh. originally from the first "Roger Irrelevant"
strip in "VIZ" comics, spread via "Your Sinclair magazine in the
1980s and early 1990s" 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). |
