[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).