dibble · noun, verb1
Possibly dib (“to dab lightly”) + -le (frequentative suffix indicating repetition or continuousness); however, the word dibble is attested earlier than dib.
dibble · noun2
From the character of Officer Charlie Dibble, a New York Police Department officer, in the Hanna-Barbera cartoon series Top Cat (first broadcast in the US in 1961, and in the UK in 1962 under the title Boss Cat).
Dibble · proper noun3
From a Middle English form of the given name Theobald.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.