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).