Meanings
wibble1
- UKslanguncountableMeaningless or content-free chatter in a discussion; drivel, babble.
Synonyms: babble, bavardage, bibble-babble, blab, blabber, blabbing, blather, blathering
present singular third person wibbles · participle present wibbling · participle past wibbled · past wibbled
- UKslangTo make meaningless comments.
Do you remember at school how you'd always get double geography last thing on a Friday afternoon? There's you and all these kids who are only interested in the weekend and each other, and standing in front of them is some old guy with a beard and a CND badge wibbling on about water tables.
2016, Seduced and Abandoned: Essays on Gay Men and Popular Music, Richard Smith, page 32
wibble2
present singular third person wibbles · participle present wibbling · participle past wibbled · past wibbled
- ambitransitiveTo wobble.
1 more example
Now his fingertips were tapping in addition to his toe-bouncing, until soon his entire body was wibbling in jumping-bean fashion. “Old Mag, you say?” He peered around Nitty at Mag, and Mag took the opportunity to inspect his mask and goggles with her trunk. The boy quit wibbling, stood stock-still, and gulped.
2019 June, Suzanne Nelson, A Tale Magnolious, New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 36
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
wibble · noun, verb
Unclear; possibly originates in the British Roger Irrelevant comic strip, then popularised by Your Sinclair magazine and the comedy Blackadder.
Full word history & related roots →Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with wibble
Cite this entry
wibble. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wibble
“wibble.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wibble. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wibble,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wibble.
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