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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).
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