Meanings
verbgiffle (third-person singular simple present giffles, present participle giffling, simple past and past participle giffled)
present singular third person giffles · participle present giffling · participle past giffled · past giffled
- East Angliato be restless or fidgety
[…]sometimes they ‘giffle’ (fidget) or ‘gimble’ (grin) […]
[1897, “Norfolk”, in The Quarterly Review, volume 185, page 147
Origin
From gliff (“a short moment, the twinkling of an eye”) by metathesis.
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