wibble

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.

   3. One of the preferred {metasyntactic variable}s in the UK, forming a
   series with wobble, wubble, and flob (attributed to the hilarious
   historical comedy Blackadder).

   4. A pronunciation 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}).