May 15, 2003

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 variables 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).

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:23 AM

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